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Tenbrink, Thora; Taylor, Holly A. – Journal of Problem Solving, 2015
Research on problem solving typically does not address tasks that involve following detailed and/or illustrated step-by-step instructions. Such tasks are not seen as cognitively challenging problems to be solved. In this paper, we challenge this assumption by analyzing verbal protocols collected during an Origami folding task. Participants…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Protocol Analysis, Task Analysis
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Otálora, Yenny – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
This study examined how small groups of second-grade children developed understandings of the concept of congruence while collaboratively exploring and solving problems with dynamic representations of triangles using Sketchpad on the iPad. One case study is presented to illustrate how young learners can infer geometrical relationships between…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation
Markey, Sean M. – ProQuest LLC, 2009
This retrospective quantitative study examined the relationship between visual-spatial reasoning abilities, as measured by the matrix reasoning and block design subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Fourth Edition (WISC-IV), and geometry and math performance, as measured by geometry and overall math scores from the Massachusetts…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Logical Thinking, Geometry, Mathematics
Reese, Clyde M.; Jerry, Laura; Ballator, Nada – 1997
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) is the only nationally representative and continuing assessment of what students in the United States know and can do in various academic subjects. The 1996 NAEP in mathematics assessed the current level of mathematical achievement as a mechanism for informing education reform. In 1996, 44…
Descriptors: Algebra, Elementary Education, Functions (Mathematics), Geometry