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Microgenetic Analysis of Young Children's Shifts of Attention in Arithmetic Tasks: Underlying Dynamics of Change in Phases of Seemingly Stable Task Performance
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Voutsina, Chronoula; George, Lois; Jones, Keith – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
A key aim of mathematics teaching is for children to develop appropriate and efficient strategies for solving tasks. The analysis presented in this paper moves beyond the exploration of changes in the strategies that children employ to solve tasks and extends to observation and exploration of changes that occur when their overall solving approach…
Descriptors: Young Children, Attention, Arithmetic, Problem Solving
Encouraging the Transfer of "School" Mathematics to the "Real World" through the Integration of Process and Content, Context and Culture.
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Boaler, Jo – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1993
Considered transfer of students' (n=100) mathematical understanding across different task contexts in an integrated process-content approach using open-ended activities and a typical English content-based approach. The integrated approach facilitated transfer. (Contains 26 references.) (MKR/Author)
Descriptors: Addition, Context Effect, Ethnomathematics, Foreign Countries