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Klára Kelecsényi; Éva Osztényiné Krauczi; Attila Végh – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
The study examines the levels of understanding logarithmic expressions within the frames of a mathematical card game. The game is based on the popular card game Saboteur. In this paper, we analyse the progress of a group of six undergraduate students participating in a remedial course using games for recalling some fundamental mathematical…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Numbers, Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Students
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Barros, Pedro Henrique Alves; da Silva, Patrícia Nunes – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
The Tchokwe people lived on the African continent, in Mozambique and Angola. The sona belong to their cultural tradition. The sona are drawings made in the sand by older members of the tribe to tell stories, essential in the youngests' formation. In this article, we show a relationship between the sona and the greatest common divisor (GCD) of two…
Descriptors: African Culture, Mathematics Instruction, Numbers, Concept Formation
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Birgin, Osman; Gürbüz, Ramazan; Memis, Kafiye Zeynep – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
The aim of this study was to investigate second-grade elementary school students' performance related to their counting skills, place value understanding, and addition operation in natural numbers. A total of 205 second-grade elementary school students from Turkey participated in this study. The data were collected through a 'Personal Information…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Computation, Number Concepts
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Vahid Borji; Petra Surynková; Emily Kuper; Jarmila Robová – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
Understanding a mathematical concept in real-world situations is of practical importance and would be helpful to learn the concept in depth. One potential way to help students learn mathematical concepts in real-world situations would be to engage them with contextual problems. Exponential and logarithmic concepts are essential topics in higher…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Numbers
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Wessman-Enzinger, Nicole M.; Mooney, Edward S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2021
In this article, we report the findings of a study conducted with 6 Grade 8 students in the United States. The students posed stories for open number sentences involving addition and subtraction of integers. We analysed the stories posed by the students to build models that describe the conceptual structures behind these posed stories -- the…
Descriptors: Addition, Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction, Numbers
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Kalapodi, A. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2010
The representation of natural numbers in decimal form is an unequivocal procedure while for the representation of real numbers some ambiguities concerning the existence of infinitely many digits equal to 9 still emerge. One of the most frequently confronted misunderstandings is whether 0.999...equals 1 or not, and if not what number does this…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Concept Formation, Mathematics Education
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Nordlander, Maria Cortas; Nordlander, Edvard – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2012
A study of how Swedish students understand the concept of complex numbers was performed. A questionnaire was issued reflecting the student view of own perception. Obtained answers show a variety of concept images describing how students adopt the concept of complex numbers. These concept images are classified into four categories in order to…
Descriptors: Numbers, Classification, Misconceptions, Mathematics Instruction