This study explores learning vector addition and demonstrating the understanding of vector addition. Vector addition is a key skill in mathematics and science education, but there is a limited amount of research that focuses on this topic. My study investigates how an instructional design framework "concreteness fading" can be used for…

This study addresses first graders' conceptual knowledge exhibited in addition strategies in relation to instructional practices and teachers' beliefs in a suburban Alabama school. To address the purpose of the study, the central question was "What is the nature of the relationship between curricular practices and beliefs and students'…

The purpose of this study was to examine adult developmental mathematics (ADM) students' knowledge of fraction addition and subtraction as it relates to their demonstrated fraction schemes and ability to disembed in multiplicative contexts with whole numbers. The study was conducted using a mixed methods sequential explanatory design. In the first…