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Direct linkSinclair, Nathalie; Ferrara, Francesca – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2021
In this article, we explore Whitehead's claim that experience is fundamentally affective. We do so in the context of an Italian primary school classroom featuring the use of the multitouch application "TouchCounts." We study the way in which the children and the iPad take each other up and the meanings of number and arithmetic that…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications
Kontorovich, Igor' – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2018
How do students cope with and make sense of polysemy in mathematics? Zazkis (1998) tackled these questions in the case of 'divisor' and 'quotient'. When requested to determine the quotient in the division of 12 by 5, some of her pre-service teachers operated in the domain of integers and argued for 2, while others adhered to rational numbers and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Concept Formation, Arithmetic
Fosse, Trude; Meaney, Tamsin – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2020
In Norway, children are encouraged to pose a problem that they can solve using an arithmetical calculation. This is known as 'regnefortelling'. During a larger project, we became interested in a small group of "regnefortelling" which used unusual contexts, contexts that made us uneasy and invoked a feeling of uncertainty about how we…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction
Coles, Alf – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2014
Drawing on the work of Gattegno, it is suggested that a powerful way of teaching mathematics is to introduce symbols as relationships between visible or tangible resources. The symbols are abstract (formal) from the beginning and yet there are concrete resources to support their use. Drawing on data from a research project in primary schools in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Multiplication, Arithmetic
Peer reviewedHasegawa, Junichi – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2002
Discusses a class on subtraction or difference-finding, problems such as "There are eight white flowers and five red flowers, how many more white flowers are there than red flowers?" used in the teaching of Japanese first grade children. Describes three instances of introductory teaching of "difference-finding" problems in the…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedPirie, S. E. B. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1988
Describes four mathematics teachers' classroom discussions with small groups in their first year secondary (11-12 years old) classrooms. Analyzes interview results from one student in each group. Topic of the classroom was division of fractions. (YP)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Classroom Observation Techniques, Division, Foreign Countries
