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Fischer, Jean-Paul; Vilette, Bruno; Joffredo-Lebrun, Sophie; Morellato, Mireille; Le Normand, Céline; Scheibling-Seve, Calliste; Richard, Jean-François – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
The question of teaching a standard written algorithm for the four arithmetical operations in the first years of elementary school is increasingly raised as a consequence of the possibility of using calculators, tablets, and computers. This article first presents arguments both against and for maintaining this teaching in the first school years.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Subtraction, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
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Lim, Siew Yee; Chapman, Elaine – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
For decades, educators have advocated using history of mathematics in mathematics classrooms. Empirical research on the efficacy of this practice, however, is scarce. A quasi-experiment was used to investigate the effects of using history as a tool to teach mathematics on grade 11 students' mathematics achievement. Effects in three affective…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, History, Teaching Methods
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Depaepe, Fien; Van Roy, Patrick; Torbeyns, Joke; Kleickmann, Thilo; Van Dooren, Wim; Verschaffel, Lieven – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
The transition from natural to rational numbers is difficult for most elementary school children. A major cause for these difficulties is assumed to be the "conceptual change" they need to undergo in order to see that several natural number properties do not apply to rational numbers. To appropriately handle pupils' difficulties,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Numbers, Experimental Groups
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Fan, Lianghuo; Qi, Chunxia; Liu, Xiaomei; Wang, Yi; Lin, Mengwei – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
We conducted an intervention-based study in secondary classrooms to explore whether the use of geometric transformations can help improve students' ability in constructing auxiliary lines to solve geometric proof problems, especially high-level cognitive problems. A pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design was employed. The participants were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Secondary School Mathematics, Geometry, Validity
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Tarim, Kamuran; Akdeniz, Fikri – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2008
This study was designed to compare the effects of Team Assisted Individualization (TAI) and Student Teams-Achievement Divisions (STAD) on fourth grade students' academic achievement in and attitudes towards mathematics. Seven classes of a school were randomly selected for this experimental study. Two of these were given instruction through TAI;…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Achievement, Academic Achievement
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Tarim, Kamuran – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2009
The aim of this study is to investigate the efficiency of cooperative learning on preschoolers' verbal mathematics problem-solving abilities and to present the observational findings of the related processes and the teachers' perspectives about the application of the program. Two experimental groups and one control group participated in the study.…
Descriptors: Experimental Groups, Control Groups, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving