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González-Forte, Juan Manuel; Fernández, Ceneida; Van Hoof, Jo; Van Dooren, Wim – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2020
Understanding rational numbers is a complex task for primary and secondary school students. Previous research has shown that a possible reason is students' tendency to apply the properties of natural numbers (inappropriately) when they are working with rational numbers (a phenomenon called "natural number bias"). Focusing on rational…
Descriptors: Numeracy, Student Characteristics, Thinking Skills, Arithmetic
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Çiftçi, Cansu; Memnun, Dilek Sezgin; Aydin, Bünyamin – Universal Journal of Educational Research, 2019
In this study, it was aimed to reveal the ideas of the secondary sixth and eighth grade students about the concept of decimal via mental images. Moreover, within the scope of this study, the differences between the mental images of the sixth and eighth grade students about the concept of decimal number will be investigated according to their class…
Descriptors: Imagery, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Grade 8
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Turgut, Sedat; Turgut, Ilknur Gülsen – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
Each child will not become senior mathematicians in the future but all children have the right to get learning opportunities which he/she can develop his/her mathematical understanding at school. The success of children in mathematics is closely related to how they are taught mathematics. At this point, the role of teaching mathematics stands out…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics
Patton, Barba; De Los Santos, Estella – Online Submission, 2012
The purpose of this study was to assess student knowledge of numeric, visual and algebraic representations. A definite gap between arithmetic and algebra has been documented in the research. The researchers' goal was to identify a link between the two. Using four "Guess My Number" problems, seventh and tenth grade students were asked to write…
Descriptors: Grade 10, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction, Visual Aids
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Whyte, L. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1977
The WISC, Piagetian logico-mathematical and representational space tasks, the Frostig DTVP and a motor ability test were administered to elementary children at 3 age and arithmetic achievement levels to determine whether specific patterns of cognitive and/or spatial development were related to arithmetic achievement and whether patterns varied…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Academic Achievement, Age Differences, Arithmetic
Miller, Kevin; Gelman, Rochel – 1982
In order to describe developments in children's conceptions of numbers and numerical relations, judgments of similarities between numbers were solicited from adults and from children in kindergarten and grades 3 and 6. A nonmetric multidimensional scaling analysis suggested that children gradually become sensitive to an expanding set of numerical…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes