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Holton, Derek – Australian Mathematics Education Journal, 2023
This article presents several mathematics problems on the same theme that can be used in class or for independent study. It is very difficult to show students how mathematics research is done by mathematicians, so the author first introduces a problem that can be tackled solely by arithmetic and then gives an idea of how a mathematician might…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Education, Arithmetic, Learner Engagement
High School Student Levels of Arithmetic Knowledge When Solving Additive Word Problems: ? Case Study
Camilo Andrés Rodríguez-Nieto; José David Cabarcas-Jiménez; Adriana Lucía Sarmiento-Reales; Benilda María Cantillo-Rudas; Jesús David Berrio-Valbuena; Sudirman Sudirman; Angela Castro Inostroza – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The level of arithmetic knowledge of a high school student was explored when solving additive word problems considering the semantic structure and syntactic component. The methodology was qualitative and developed in four stages: the first is the selection of the participant, the second is the design of a questionnaire with twenty additive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Addition
David W. Braithwaite; Anna N. Rafferty – Cognitive Science, 2025
Math problem solving frequently involves choices among alternative strategies. Strategy choices, and effects of problem features on strategy choices, both vary among individuals. We propose that individual differences in strategy choices can be well characterized in terms of parametric variation in three types of influence: global bias, relevant…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Fractions, Arithmetic, Problem Solving
Ethan Roy; Mathieu Guillaume; Amandine Van Rinsveld; Project iLead Consortium; Bruce D. McCandliss – npj Science of Learning, 2025
Arithmetic fluency is regarded as a foundational math skill, typically measured as a single construct with pencil-and-paper-based timed assessments. We introduce a tablet-based assessment of single-digit fluency that captures individual trial response times across several embedded experimental contrasts of interest. A large (n = 824) cohort of…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills, Tablet Computers, Grade 3
Elena M. Silla; Christina Areizaga Barbieri; Kristie J. Newton – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Procedural flexibility is an important skill for algebra. Although prior work has focused on measuring students' procedural flexibility using arithmetic problems, word problems may also capture students' flexibility because of their open-ended nature. To date, no published study has examined the use of word problems as another measure of…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 7, Grade 8
Garcia Coppersmith, Jeannette; Star, Jon R. – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
This study explores student flexibility in mathematics by examining the relationship between accuracy and strategy use for solving arithmetic and algebra problems. Core to procedural flexibility is the ability to select and accurately execute the most appropriate strategy for a given problem. Yet the relationship between strategy selection and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Learning Strategies, Problem Solving, Arithmetic
Jérôme Proulx – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
Research studies are abundant in pointing at how the transition from additive to multiplicative thinking acts as a core challenge for students' understanding of proportionality. This said, we have yet to understand how this transition can be supported, and there remains significant questions to address about how students experience it. Recent work…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Thinking Skills, Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic
Colleen O'Donnell Oppenzato – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Many U.S. students possess only a weak knowledge of fraction arithmetic. I hypothesize that textbooks are a critical reason for students' poor performance on fraction arithmetic. This is not because of what textbooks contain but rather because of what they lack. Distributions of fraction arithmetic problems in textbooks are imbalanced, with…
Descriptors: Fractions, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Comparative Analysis
Cui, Zhihao; Ng, Oi-lam; Jong, Morris Siu-Yung – Educational Technology & Society, 2023
Grounded in problem-based learning and with respect to four mathematics domains (arithmetic, random events and counting, number theory, and geometry), we designed a series of programming-based learning tasks for middle school students to co-develop computational thinking (CT) and corresponding mathematical thinking. Various CT concepts and…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Education, Problem Based Learning
Polotskaia, Elena; Fellus, Olga O.; Cavalcante, Alexandre; Savard, Annie – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
The transition from arithmetic to algebra in middle school can be critical for students having persistent difficulties in mathematics. The leading perception in our project is that holistic relational thinking is an effective problem-solving tool in both arithmetic and algebra. We worked in collaboration with two teachers of special classes to…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Problem Solving, Algebra
Ng, Oi-Lam; Leung, Allen; Ye, Huiyan – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2023
Programming is an interdisciplinary practice with applications in both mathematics and computer science. Mathematics concerns rigor, abstraction, and generalization. Computer science predominantly concerns efficiency, concreteness, and physicality. This makes programming a medium for problem solving that mediates between mathematics and computer…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Programming, Programming Languages
Bajo-Benito, José Mariano; Sánchez-Matamoros García, Gloria; Gavilán-Izquierdo, José María – EURASIA Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2021
This paper aims to characterise an indicator of the development of the number sequence scheme among students at the level of Compulsory Secondary Education (14-16 years old students). To do so, we use a scheme development proposed by the APOS theory to characterise students' use of relations between mathematical elements when solving a…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Number Concepts
Demattè, Adriano; Furinghetti, Fulvia – ZDM: Mathematics Education, 2022
In this paper, we describe an experiment in using history to work on problem-solving and the relationship between arithmetic and algebra. The students involved attended the first year of the Italian upper secondary school (grade 9). The original sources we used are problems from Italian treatises on arithmetic and algebra that appeared in the…
Descriptors: History, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic
Jeffrey Kramer Bye; Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Avery H. Closser; Ji-Eun Lee; Stacy T. Shaw; Erin R. Ottmar – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2024
Students often perform arithmetic using rigid problem-solving strategies that involve left-to-right-calculations. However, as students progress from arithmetic to algebra, entrenchment in rigid problem-solving strategies can negatively impact performance as students experience varied problem representations that sometimes conflict with the order…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Arithmetic, Mathematics Skills
Jahudin, Janet; Siew, Nyet Moi – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2023
Diagnostic tests have been developed previously to measure algebraic thinking skills; however, the tests do not specifically address algebraic problem-solving. Thus, an Algebraic Thinking Test (ATT) Instrument was developed to measure algebraic thinking skills in problem-solving involving linear equations. ATT comprises nine open-ended questions…
Descriptors: Algebra, Thinking Skills, Foreign Countries, Problem Solving