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Abigail Erskine; Laura Bofferding; Sezai Kocabos; Haoran Tang – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
As elementary students begin to program using tangible blocks, they must coordinate their use of counting with the movements, directions, and numbers they use to move a character. In our study, we analyzed 13 first graders' first attempts at coordinating these elements when playing a programming game on the iPad that used tangible programming…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1, Computation
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Bofferding, Laura; Hoffman, Andrew; Suazo, Elizabeth; Lisy, Nicole – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
When to introduce negative integers to children is an important issue in school mathematics; delaying their introduction can lead to lasting misconceptions such as one cannot subtract a larger whole number from a smaller. Yet understanding negatives involves a complex extension of whole-number knowledge. It is not known whether this extension is…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Number Concepts, Intervention
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Saxe, Geoffrey B.; Taylor, Edd V.; McIntosh, Clifton; Gearhart, Maryl – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2005
This study had two purposes: (a) to investigate the developmental relationship between students' uses of fractions notation and their understandings of part-whole relations; and (b) to produce an analysis of the role of fractions instruction in students' use of notation to represent parts of an area. Elementary students (n = 384) in 19 classes…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Educational Change, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students