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Schüler-Meyer, Alexander – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
After being introduced to the distributive law in meaningful contexts, students need to extend its scope of application to unfamiliar expressions. In this article, a process model for the development of structure sense is developed. Building on this model, this article reports on a design research project in which exercise tasks support students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Design
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González-Calero, José Antonio; Arnau, David; Laserna-Belenguer, Belén – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
An empirical study has been carried out to evaluate the potential of word order matching and static comparison as explanatory models of reversal error. Data was collected from 214 undergraduate students who translated a set of additive and multiplicative comparisons expressed in Spanish into algebraic language. In these multiplicative comparisons…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Undergraduate Students, Spanish, Algebra