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Cabero-Fayos, Ismael; Santágueda-Villanueva, María; Villalobos-Antúnez, Jose Vicente; Roig-Albiol, Ana Isabel – Education Sciences, 2020
From an early age, understanding proportional reasoning is a fundamental pillar in mathematics education, and therefore, teachers should have a thorough knowledge of it. Despite its significance, there are few studies that analyse the difficulties that student teachers have in understanding proportionality, and even less so inverse…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Logical Thinking, Problem Solving
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Cañadas, María C.; Molina, Marta; del Río, Aurora – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
Some errors in the learning of algebra suggest that students might have difficulties giving meaning to algebraic symbolism. In this paper, we use problem posing to analyze the students' capacity to assign meaning to algebraic symbolism and the difficulties that students encounter in this process, depending on the characteristics of the algebraic…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Logic, Symbols (Mathematics), Questionnaires
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Mielicki, Marta K.; Wiley, Jennifer – Journal of Problem Solving, 2016
Successful algebraic problem solving entails adaptability of solution methods using different representations. Prior research has suggested that students are more likely to prefer symbolic solution methods (equations) over graphical ones, even when graphical methods should be more efficient. However, this research has not tested how representation…
Descriptors: Algebra, Problem Solving, Graphs, Equations (Mathematics)