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Céline Poletti; Marie Krenger; Marie Létang; Brune Hennequin; Catherine Thevenot – Child Development, 2025
Our study on 328 five- to six-year-old kindergarteners (mainly White European living in France, 152 girls) shows that children who do not count on their fingers and undergo finger counting training exhibit drastic improvement in their addition skills from pre-test to post-test (i.e., accuracy from 37.3% to 77.1%) compared to a passive control…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Young Children, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills
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Inés Gallego-Sánchez; Verónica Martín-Molina; Isabel Caro-Torró; José María Gavilán-Izquierdo – Education 3-13, 2025
Our work investigated how six primary school students used a non-traditional method for adding and subtracting: the ABN method, a Spanish acronym for Open (method) Based on Numbers. Commognitive theory [Sfard, A. 2008. "Thinking as Communicating: Human Development, the Growth of Discourses, and Mathematizing." New York: Cambridge…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Students, Addition, Subtraction
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Camilo Andrés Rodríguez-Nieto; José David Cabarcas-Jiménez; Adriana Lucía Sarmiento-Reales; Benilda María Cantillo-Rudas; Jesús David Berrio-Valbuena; Sudirman Sudirman; Angela Castro Inostroza – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
The level of arithmetic knowledge of a high school student was explored when solving additive word problems considering the semantic structure and syntactic component. The methodology was qualitative and developed in four stages: the first is the selection of the participant, the second is the design of a questionnaire with twenty additive…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction, Addition
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Delia Leuenberger; Elisabeth Moser Opitz; Noemi Gloor – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2024
Computation competence (CC) in simple addition and subtraction using non-counting (NC) strategies is an important learning objective in Grade 1 mathematics but many children, especially low achievers in mathematics, struggle to acquire these skills. To provide these students with the support they need, it is important to have valid and reliable…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematics Skills, Addition, Subtraction
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Tinyiko Florence Sambo; Tshegofatso Phuti Makgakga – Research in Social Sciences and Technology, 2024
Word problem solving is an approach that can increase knowledge, improve performance and develop learners' critical thinking skills that can assist them in solving mathematical and real-life problems. This study examined the effectiveness of using a word problem solving approach to improve Grade 3 learners' performance when learning addition and…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Education, Addition, Subtraction
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Matthias Grünke; Jennifer Karnes; Anne Barwasser; Mack Burke – Journal of Education and Learning, 2024
This paper presents a replication study investigating the effectiveness of a strategy to assist students with learning difficulties in adding fractions. Drawing on the research conducted by Grünke et al. (2023), this single-case analysis extends the application of the "Look, Ask, Pick" (LAP) mnemonic technique initially introduced by…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Fractions, Addition, Mathematics Skills
Michelle Cheung; Bronwyn Reid O’Connor; Ben Zunica – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Progressing from additive to multiplicative thinking is a key outcome of school mathematics, making ratios an essential topic of study in junior secondary. In this study, 15 Australian Year 8 students were administered a ratio test followed by semi-structured interviews to explore their conceptions of ratio prior to formal instruction. In this…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Multiplication
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Angelika Kullberg; Camilla Björklund; Ulla Runesson Kempe; Irma Brkovic; Maria Nord; Tuula Maunula – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
Learning to calculate with natural numbers by structuring seems promising but how this can be taught in a sustainable manner remains an open question. An eight-month-long intervention based on the idea of using a structural approach to addition and subtraction, and particularly bridging through ten, was implemented in four Swedish first-grade…
Descriptors: Student Improvement, Addition, Subtraction, Mathematics Instruction
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Boby Ho-Hong Ching; Xiang Yu Li; Tiffany Ting Chen – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2024
Background: Recent research showed that cross-notation magnitude knowledge of fractions and decimals was related to better performance in fraction arithmetic, but it remains unclear whether it made an independent contribution to fraction arithmetic longitudinally when other cognitive variables are considered. Aims: To examine the extent to which…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Fractions, Arithmetic, Young Children
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Nagisa Nakawa; Yusuke Uegatani; Hiroki Otani; Hiroto Fukuda – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2024
The objective of this case study was to identify the role of finger gestures in learning mathematics informally during play, especially in sociocultural settings. A mathematical activity involving addition was qualitatively analyzed at a Japanese preschool. We explored how the process of subjectification and objectification contributed to a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Activities, Foreign Countries, Play
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Sultan Kaya; Nevin Guner Yildiz – International Journal of Developmental Disabilities, 2024
Objective: This study aims to determine the effectiveness of the concrete-representational-abstract (CRA) sequence presented by the explicit instruction in teaching the skills of basic addition and subtraction, building tens-and-ones to a student with special needs in a general education classroom. Method: A multiple probe across skills single…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills, Addition, Subtraction
James Russo; Anne Roche – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
In this paper we explored primary school teachers preference for different game modes to support mathematics teaching and learning. Eighty-four teachers played digital and non-digital addition and subtraction games that were functionally equivalent during professional learning workshops. Most teachers indicated that they would be more likely to…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Professional Development
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Darius Endlich; Wolfgang Lenhard; Peter Marx; Tobias Richter – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2024
Children with mathematical difficulties need to spend more time than typically achieving children on solving even simple equations. Since these tasks already require a larger share of their cognitive resources, additional demands imposed by the need to switch between tasks may lead to a greater decline of performance in children with mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Learning Problems, Arithmetic, Mathematics Achievement
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Corin D. Mathews – South African Journal of Childhood Education, 2025
Background: Base-ten thinking (BTT) -- children's ability to reason in tens and ones is a crucial measure of Foundation Phase learners' mathematical performance in South Africa. Aim: The study looks at the six learners using BTT to solve additive tasks through two different assessments. Setting: Six purposely selected Grade 3 learners in…
Descriptors: Evaluation Methods, Task Analysis, High Achievement, Low Achievement
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Naida Bikic; Nevzudin Buzadija; Anela Hrnjicic – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2024
This paper is based on the analysis of the relationship between early education, mathematical skills, and student achievement in Bosnia & Herzegovina, using data from the trends in international mathematics and science study (TIMSS) 2019. The study involves 5,628 fourth-grade students whose average age was 10.1 years. The research specifically…
Descriptors: Early Childhood Education, Academic Achievement, Mathematics Skills, Foreign Countries