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Nurnberger-Haag, Julie – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
In light of conceptual metaphor theory, historical mathematicians' and students' difficulty with negative numbers reveals that the collecting objects metaphor may be a cognitive obstacle to those first learning about negative numbers. Moreover, consistency of physical motions with targeted ideas is a factor of cognition. Thus, this…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Arithmetic, Number Concepts, Learning Processes
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Altiparmak, Kemal – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2016
Soroban abacus training is called as mental arithmetic training in our country. It is known for mental arithmetic to increase the ability of four mode operations. Besides this, how is the situation for the students which are having Soroban abacus training in the terms of problem solving abilities, creativity, development of concepts, attraction…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
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Fisher, Molly H.; Schack, Edna O.; Thomas, Jonathan; Eisenhardt, Sara; Yoder, Margaret; Tassell, Janet – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
The goal of this study is to develop the professional noticing abilities of preservice elementary teachers in the context of the Stages of Early Arithmetic Learning. In their mathematics methods course, the preservice elementary teachers participated in a researcher-developed multi-session module that progressively nests the three interrelated…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Arithmetic
Smith, Donald M. – 1974
The concept of scaled achievement tests is discussed and a method of selecting those items of a test that form the most scalable (i.e., having the highest coefficient of reproducibility) subset is presented. Sometimes called a monotonic-deterministic model, this type of test assumes that the test items may be sequentially ordered. To determine the…
Descriptors: Achievement Tests, Arithmetic, Difficulty Level, Item Analysis
Rotman, Jack W. – 1991
Drawing from research and observations at Lansing Community College (Michigan) (LCC), this paper argues that typical arithmetic courses do little to prepare students to master algebra, and proposes an alternative set of arithmetic skills as actual prerequisites to algebra. The first section offers a description of the algebra sequence at LCC,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algebra, Arithmetic, Community Colleges
House, Gary D. – 1979
The equivalency of achievement results obtained under Title I evaluation models A1 and C1 was examined. Data were reading comprehension and arithmetic scores on the Iowa Tests of Basic Skills, administered to fourth, sixth, and eighth grade students in St. Louis, Missouri. The St. Louis Public Schools had traditionally used Model A1, a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Gains, Age Differences, Arithmetic