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Pakeezah Rajab; Benny Motileng – Pythagoras, 2024
Mathematics achievement is core to South Africa's readiness for digital innovation, yet current pass rates in this subject are below the global average. Simply attributing mathematics performance to intelligence does not fully account for the multifaceted reality of achievement in the subject. The current study investigated the value of both…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 9, Foreign Countries
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Bisson, Marie-Josée; Gilmore, Camilla; Inglis, Matthew; Jones, Ian – Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
An ongoing debate concerns whether novel mathematical concepts are better learned using contextualised or decontextualised representations. A barrier to resolving this debate, and therefore to progress in the discipline, has been the paucity of validated methods of measuring students' understanding of mathematical concepts. We developed an…
Descriptors: Calculus, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
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Fard, Adnan Eshrati; Asgary, Ali; Sarami, Gholam Reza; Zarekar, Akram – Journal of Education and Training Studies, 2014
The current study aimed to identify the appropriate method of teaching creativity through comparing computer-based instruction with problem-solving instruction. A sample of 50 male students studying in the second grade of junior high school was chosen and divided into two equal groups. Both groups filled out the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Problem Solving, Creativity, Scores