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Seyda Zengin; Emrullah Erdem – Acta Educationis Generalis, 2024
This study aims to reveal the mathematical reasoning process of 8th-grade students and the reasoning indicators they use in this process. The study was carried out in line with the data obtained from the Mathematical Reasoning Test (MRT) administered to 292 8th-grade students. The mathematical reasoning performances of the participants were…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Mathematics, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills
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Cetin, Ibrahim; Dev, Serife – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2023
This study investigated the methods that pre-service teachers employed while finding volume using integration and the reasons why they utilized these methods (problems); the accuracy of their solutions was also analyzed in this study. Case study design, a qualitative research method, was used for this study. 45 sophomore pre-service teachers…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Teaching Methods
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Tekin-Sitrava, Reyhan – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2020
Although students' nonstandard strategies have great importance in understanding students' thinking and creating effective mathematics classrooms, much remains unexplored in the literature. This study investigated 22 middle school teachers' reasoning about a student's nonstandard strategy for the division of fractions. The data were collected…
Descriptors: Middle School Mathematics, Mathematics Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Division
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Tabak, Sanem – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2019
The aim of this research is to determine the misconceptions among 6th, 7th and 8th grade students about the order of operations in line with arithmetic expressions and posing and solving problems related to arithmetic expressions. The research has a mixed-method research design with concurrent-triangulation design. The study group for the research…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Misconceptions, Arithmetic, Mathematical Concepts
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Gurbuz, M. Cagri; Ozdemir, M. Emin – World Journal of Education, 2020
The aim of this study was to examine 6th-grade students' mathematical abstraction processes related to the concept of variable by using the teaching experiment method and to reveal their learning trajectories in the context of the RBC+C model. A teaching experiment was administered to a class of 29 middle school students for 3 weeks. Observations,…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Grade 6, Middle School Students, Algebra
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Bülbül, Buket Özüm; Güler, Mustafa; Gürsoy, Kadir; Güven, Bülent – International Online Journal of Education and Teaching, 2020
Although numerous studies have investigated how technology affects academic achievement, very few have focused on the purpose of the use of technology in mathematics education. This current study examines how student teachers (STs) benefit from GeoGebra as one of the Dynamic Geometry Software (DGS) while solving continuity problems. In order to…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Geometry, Problem Solving, Mathematics Education
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Ersoy, Meryem; Ilhan, Onur Alp; Sevgi, Sevim – Higher Education Studies, 2019
In this study, it was aimed to examine the relation between seventh-grade students' quadrilaterals achievement levels and Van Hiele geometric thinking levels. Survey method was used. The sample of the study was 160 students from the three different districts of Kayseri, as Melikgazi, Incesu, and Tomarza. Van Hiele geometric thinking test and…
Descriptors: Correlation, Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction