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Supply, Anne-Sophie; Vanluydt, Elien; Van Dooren, Wim; Onghena, Patrick – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Findings on children's proportional reasoning abilities strongly vary across studies. This might be due to the different contexts that can be used in proportional problems: fair-sharing, mixtures, and probability. A review of the scientific literature suggests that the context of proportional problems may not only impact the difficulty of the…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Thinking Skills, Young Children, Problem Solving
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Abu-Ghalyoun, Omar – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
Past studies have documented some pre-service teachers' (PSTs) difficulties in reasoning about sampling variability. This study adds to the body of literature by investigating the ideas that PSTs employ in reasoning about sampling variability, and by conjecturing what is behind the difficulties especially during the contextuality episodes. This…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Abstract Reasoning, Sampling, Statistics Education