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Ulusoy, Fadime – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2019
This study aims to investigate the obstacles in eighth-grade students' understanding of integer exponents using a mixed method research design. A total of 165 eighth-grade students were given a paper-pencil task and clinical interviews were conducted with 12 students. The findings indicated that achievement of the participants was low, especially…
Descriptors: Barriers, Middle School Students, Numbers, Mathematics Instruction
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Vlassis, Joelle – Learning and Instruction, 2004
This article focuses on the kinds of conceptual changes that occur when students have to deal with negative numbers in elementary algebraic operations. Interviews were carried out with twelve 8th-grade level students who were selected on the basis of their results in a test where they were required to reduce polynomials. The questions applied to…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Arithmetic, Numbers, Algebra