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Herman Tshesane; Hamsa Venkat – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2023
Evidence in South Africa of poor performance on word problems points to particular challenges among learners relating to difficulties with, on the one hand, making sense of mathematical word problems and, on the other, moving beyond inefficient counting based calculation methods. While many studies in mathematics education in South Africa have…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction
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Ipek, Ali Sabri – International Journal of Progressive Education, 2018
Pre-service mathematics teachers' content knowledge is an important issue. Therefore, detailed studies are needed to be conducted on mathematical topics. The study examines preservice elementary mathematics teachers' (PEMTs) special content knowledge (SCK) of integer addition and subtraction in the context of using multiple representations,…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Addition
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Khosroshahi, Leyla G.; Asghari, Amir H. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2016
There is a call for enabling students to use a range of efficient mental and written strategies when solving addition and subtraction problems. To do so, students should recognise numerical structures and be able to change a problem to an equivalent problem. The purpose of this article is to suggest an activity to facilitate such understanding in…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Addition, Subtraction, Problem Solving
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Almeida, Rut; Bruno, Alicia – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2014
This paper analyses the strategies used by pre-service primary school teachers for solving simple addition problems involving negative numbers. The findings reveal six different strategies that depend on the difficulty of the problem and, in particular, on the unknown quantity. We note that students use negative numbers in those problems they find…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Problem Solving, Elementary School Mathematics
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Verzosa, Debbie Bautista; Mulligan, Joanne – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2013
This paper reports an intervention phase of a design study aimed to assist second-grade Filipino children in solving addition word problems in English, a language they primarily encounter only in school. With Filipino as the medium of instruction, an out-of-school pedagogical intervention providing linguistic and representational scaffolds was…
Descriptors: Intervention, Subtraction, Linguistics, Elementary School Students
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Djuric-Zdravkovic, Aleksandra; Japundza-Milisavljevic, Mirjana; Macesic-Petrovic, Dragana – Education and Training in Autism and Developmental Disabilities, 2011
This paper is aimed at depicting the quality of functions of some of the aspects of attention in children with mild intellectual disabilities and their influence on the mastering of arithmetic operations, including addition and subtraction. The sample used in this study encompasses 60 pupils, both males and females. The criteria used in the…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Addition, Subtraction, Mathematics Skills
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Mesa, Vilma – MathAMATYC Educator, 2010
Textbooks, like many other resources teachers have at hand, are meant to be an aid for instruction; however there is little research with textbooks or on their potential to develop metacognitive knowledge. Metacognitive knowledge has received substantial attention in the literature, in particular for its relationship with problem-solving in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Textbooks, Metacognition, Problem Solving
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Mayer, Richard E.; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1995
This brief report compares the lessons on addition and subtraction of signed whole numbers in three seventh-grade Japanese mathematics texts and four U.S. mathematics texts. Japanese books contained many more worked-out examples and relevant illustrations, while U.S. books had more irrelevant illustrations and unsolved problems. (SLD)
Descriptors: Addition, Comparative Analysis, Foreign Countries, Grade 7