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Veith, Joaquin M.; Bitzenbauer, Philipp – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2021
In this paper, we focus on two particularly problematic concepts in teaching mathematics: the complex unit i and angles. These concepts are naturally linked via De Moivre's theorem but are independently misused in numerous contexts. We present definitions, notations, and ways of speaking about these terms from mathematics education that are not…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Number Concepts, Algebra, Concept Formation
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Kapicioglu, Gülseren; Arikan, Elif Esra – International Journal of Psychology and Educational Studies, 2022
This study aims to analyze the problem-posing skills of primary school mathematics teacher candidates with problem-posing experience and their views on problem posing. The case study, one of the qualitative studies, was used in the study. The study group is ten prospective elementary mathematics teachers who were selected using the purposive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Wan, Tong; Emigh, Paul J.; Shaffer, Peter S. – Physical Review Physics Education Research, 2019
In quantum mechanics, probability amplitudes are complex numbers and the relative phases between the terms in superposition states have measurable effects. This article describes an investigation into sophomore- and junior-level students' reasoning patterns in relating relative phases and real-world quantum phenomena. The investigation involved…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Difficulty Level, Quantum Mechanics
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Hill, Sophie – Studies in Higher Education, 2020
It has been stated that a criterion of a threshold concept is that it is troublesome or difficult to understand. However, not all difficult concepts are also threshold concepts. This article explores this difference through the context of students' difficulties in learning prosthetics and two models of describing threshold concepts. Students and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Fundamental Concepts, Difficulty Level, Assistive Technology
Al-Jarf, Reima – Online Submission, 2023
This study explores the similarities and differences between English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions, and difficulties that student-translators have with them. A corpus of English and Arabic numeral-based formulaic expressions containing zero, two, three, twenty, sixty, hundred, thousand…etc., and another corpus of specialized…
Descriptors: Translation, Arabic, Contrastive Linguistics, Phrase Structure
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Norton, Anderson; Ulrich, Catherine; Kerrigan, Sarah – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2020
We introduce a methodology for diagramming the ways students use sequences of mental actions to solve mathematical tasks. We studied 12 pre-service teachers as they solved a set of fractions tasks, ranked by cognitive demand. We present the unit transformation graphs for one of those pre-service teachers, to illustrate how she experienced and met…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education
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Huijser, Stefan; Taatgen, Niels A.; van Vugt, Marieke K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2021
Preparing for the future during ongoing activities is an essential skill. Yet it is currently unclear to what extent we can prepare for the future in parallel with another task. In two experiments, we investigated how characteristics of a present task influenced whether and when participants prepared for the future, as well as its usefulness. We…
Descriptors: Futures (of Society), Cognitive Processes, Planning, Short Term Memory
Berenger, Adrian – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2018
This paper reports the results of an investigation into the ways pre-service teachers engaged in structured problem solving as part of their first-year mathematics education course. The purpose of this study was to determine the preferred problem solving strategies of pre-service teachers and the types of difficulties they experienced. The written…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Difficulty Level, Problem Solving, Student Attitudes
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Wulandari, Yunita Oktavia; Damayanti, Nia Wahyu – Malikussaleh Journal of Mathematics Learning, 2018
Scaffolding is defined as help that can assist students to solve problems or understand concepts that were not able to complete independently. In modern times, the concept of technology-based Scaffolding in learning has developed. In this study an educational game called "Telolet" was designed with the aim of providing Scaffolding to…
Descriptors: Scaffolding (Teaching Technique), Game Based Learning, Mathematics Instruction, Educational Games
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Johnson, Kim – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
Proportional reasoning is important to the field of mathematics education because it lies at the crossroads of additive reasoning in the elementary school and multiplicative reasoning needed for more advanced mathematics. This research reports on the representations used by pre-service teachers (PSTs) as they responded to tasks involving…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Thinking Skills, Mathematical Logic
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Mensch, Scott – Journal of Instructional Pedagogies, 2010
When developing online classrooms it is necessary to ensure that all learners will be successful in the course regardless of the topic or discipline that is being discussed. This becomes especially important when the class involves numerical data. This paper outlines the difficulty of delivering online classes such as algebra, accounting, and…
Descriptors: Online Courses, Mathematics, Numbers, Computation
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DePierro, Ed; Garafalo, Fred; Toomey, Rick – Journal of Chemical Education, 2008
This paper summarizes difficulties that chemistry students at all levels commonly exhibit when translating, manipulating, and interpreting mathematical expressions that contain logarithms, and offers approaches that the authors have found useful to help students overcome such difficulties. The online supplement provides problem sets created by the…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Problem Sets, Chemistry, Equations (Mathematics)
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Gnaldi, Michaela – Teaching Statistics: An International Journal for Teachers, 2006
Mathematics lecturers have long expressed concern about their students poor mathematical background and the effect this has on performance in first mathematics courses at university level. This article explores a similar concern about students' numeracy in a statistics course for psychologists.
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Numeracy, Teaching Methods, Statistics
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education