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Sarah Lord – ProQuest LLC, 2023
The algorithm for fraction multiplication is relatively easy to memorize and implement with accuracy. The simplicity of the algorithm masks the conceptual complexity involved in making sense of what fraction multiplication means in quantitative situations. One important interpretation of fraction multiplication involves fraction composition,…
Descriptors: Fractions, Multiplication, Mathematical Concepts, Learning Processes
Francom, Rachel Carlsruh – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this dissertation is to study preservice elementary teachers' (PSTs') procedural and conceptual understanding of fraction multiplication, and to study how math drawings might be used to reveal this knowledge and encourage learning. This dissertation is in response to the call for more rigorous qualitative studies that look at PSTs'…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Fractions, Mathematics Education, Multiplication
Reyhan Safak – ProQuest LLC, 2024
Structural reasoning is a combined ability to "look for structures, recognize structures, probe into structures, act upon structures, reason in terms of general structures, and see how a piece of knowledge acquired resolves a perturbation experienced" (Harel and Soto, 2017). The purpose of this study was to explore the cognitive…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Elementary School Students, Thinking Skills
Whitney Rhiannon Holland – ProQuest LLC, 2022
The purpose of this mixed-methods study was to measure the impact of a sequential use of manipulatives and visual models on third-grade students' multiplication fluency, math attitudes, and fact retention. According to results of this study, there was significant evidence that the students who gained a conceptual understanding of multiplication…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3, Mathematics Skills, Student Attitudes
Cody Harrington – ProQuest LLC, 2021
This dissertation case study examines how teachers' levels of units coordination afford their ability to reason multiplicatively and fractionally, as well as use their mathematics knowledge for teaching to analyze student multiplicative and fractional reasoning, when a two-year intervention is put into place to evoke new mathematical reasoning.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication, Fractions, Mathematical Logic
Camp, Mary E. – ProQuest LLC, 2018
The purpose of this action research was to evaluate the implementation of technology integration with multiplication concepts (i.e., repeated, arrays, and decomposing numbers) for struggling third grade mathematics students. This study incorporated the use of virtual manipulatives and student think-aloud recordings to measure students' conceptual…
Descriptors: Technology Integration, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Mathematics Instruction
Thompson, Deborah Marie – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Basic multiplication fact fluency is an expected outcome of most third grade classrooms throughout the United States. Students need to know their multiplication facts. This statement does not seem to be under question; it is more about how will students learn their multiplication facts. The purpose of this study was to investigate the use of…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3, Elementary School Mathematics
Johnson, Nicholas Charles – ProQuest LLC, 2017
This case study examined competence in two third-grade classrooms where teachers centered children's mathematical thinking in instructional decision-making. Offering a synthesis of sociocultural characterizations of competence, and drawing from a variety of data sources including classroom video, student work and assessments, and teacher…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Johnson, Nickey Owen – ProQuest LLC, 2013
The purpose of this study was to explore problem solving with kindergarten students. This line of inquiry is highly significant given that Common Core State Standards emphasize deep, conceptual understanding in mathematics as well as problem solving in kindergarten. However, there is little research on problem solving with kindergarten students.…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Mathematical Concepts
Rouse, Julie A. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Deficiencies in mathematics standardized test scores prompted school district policymakers to consider implementing a program designed to increase students' basic multiplication fact skills. This study was an evaluation of the Math Factual Operations for Understanding program. The program, marketed with a martial arts theme, was intended to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Standardized Tests, Scores, Mathematical Concepts
Grandau, Laura – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study of fourth-grade students and teachers explores mathematics teaching and learning that focuses on discovering and modeling algebraic relationships. The study has two parts: an investigation of how students learn to construct algebraic statements and models for comparisons and measurement situations in the multiplicative domain, and an…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Intermediate Grades, Grade 4, Algebra
Denham, Andre – ProQuest LLC, 2012
This study purposed to determine the effect of an endogenously designed instructional game on conceptual understanding of the associative and distributive properties of multiplication. Additional this study sought to investigate if performance on measures of conceptual understanding taken prior to and after game play could serve as predictors of…
Descriptors: Educational Games, Concept Formation, Mathematical Concepts, Multiplication
Todd, Abbey Nicole – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This study presented sets of 15 multiplication facts to each of 4 third-grade participants. The items were presented by an iPod each session three times at three different time delays. When mastery was achieved on a set (80% correct across 3 consecutive sessions), the participant moved on to a new set. Generalization probes were administered…
Descriptors: Intervention, Maintenance, Multiplication, Effect Size