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Temple, Codruta; Doerr, Helen M. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
The purpose of this study was to identify the interactional strategies that one teacher used in a discourse-rich tenth-grade classroom to develop her students' facility with the mathematical register. Viewing the mathematical register as multi-semiotic and having a specific grammatical patterning, we used discourse analysis (Sinclair & Coulthard,…
Descriptors: Discourse Analysis, Feedback (Response), Identification, Grade 10
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Robotti, Elisabetta – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
In the field of human cognition, language plays a special role that is connected directly to thinking and mental development (e.g., Vygotsky, "1938"). Thanks to "verbal thought", language allows humans to go beyond the limits of immediately perceived information, to form concepts and solve complex problems (Luria, "1975"). So, it appears language…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Plane Geometry, Researchers, Natural Language Processing
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Malisani, Elsa; Spagnolo, Filippo – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
The introduction of the concept of the variable represents a critical point in the arithmetic-algebraic transition. This concept is complex because it is used with different meanings in different situations. Its management depends on the particular way of using it in problem-solving. The aim of this paper was to analyse whether the notion of…
Descriptors: Older Adults, Problem Solving, Natural Language Processing, Arithmetic
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Brown, Tony – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1994
Considers radical constructivism in light of poststructuralism and hermeneutic phenomenology and shows how this forces a reassertion of the teacher's role in the student's constructing of mathematical knowledge. (48 references) (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning), Elementary Secondary Education, Hermeneutics
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Osterholm, Magnus – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
This study compares reading comprehension of three different texts: two mathematical texts and one historical text. The two mathematical texts both present basic concepts of group theory, but one does it using mathematical symbols and the other only uses natural language. A total of 95 upper secondary and university students read one of the…
Descriptors: Symbols (Mathematics), Prior Learning, Mathematics, Natural Language Processing
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Moore, Robert C. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1994
Observations and interviews with (n=16) undergraduate mathematics and mathematics education majors learning to do formal mathematical proofs found three major sources of students' difficulties: concept understanding, mathematical language and notation, and getting started on a proof. (25 references) (MKR)
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Concept Formation, Education Majors, Higher Education
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Fischbein, Efraim; And Others – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1991
To investigate the origins and nature of intuitive obstacles affecting the learning of elementary probability theory, 618 Italian elementary and middle school students were interviewed about their methods of solution for several problems dealing with probability. The discussion focuses on four varieties of obstacles to learning prevalent within…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Cognitive Style, Comprehension, Concept Formation