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Öçal, Tugba; Kiziltas, Emine – Education 3-13, 2019
Children's intuitive understanding of numbers begins early in life, and their numbers-related knowledge influences instructors' teaching practices. The number zero is more difficult to teach and learn than other numbers. The purpose of this study was to investigate how preschool teachers perceive the number zero and design their teaching practices…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preschool Teachers, Teacher Attitudes, Number Concepts
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Hayfa, Nina; Saikaly, Layal – Athens Journal of Education, 2016
This paper explores the dimensions of knowledge and the ways of thinking (procedural or proceptual thinking) adopted by 157 Lebanese students in different grades when defining and identifying irrational numbers when locating them on the number line. It searches for a relation between the performance of the participants and their different grades.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Number Concepts, Knowledge Level, Concept Formation
Leeds Education Authority (England). Mathematics Curriculum Study Group. – 1977
This is one of a series of monographs developed by teachers in middle and high schools near Leeds, England. This volume presents a glossary of mathematical terms, in alphabetical order, each with a brief definition. Six appendices contain additional terms (cross-referenced in the main list) grouped by topics. The topics are: numbers,…
Descriptors: Definitions, Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Mathematical Vocabulary
Kim, Dong-Joong; Sfard, Anna; Ferrini-Mundy, Joan – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The purpose of the study presented in this paper is to investigate how students deal with the concepts of infinity and limit. Based on the communicational approach to cognition, according to which mathematics is a kind of discourse, we try to identify the characteristics of students' discourse on the topic. Four American and four Korean students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Comprehension, Cultural Differences, Foreign Countries
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) The Affective Views of Primary School Children (Peter Grootenboer); (2) Theoretical Model of Analysis of Rate Problems in Algebra (Jose Guzman, Nadine Bednarz and Fernando Hitt); (3) Locating Fractions on…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Education, Validity
Pateman, Neil A., Ed; Dougherty, Barbara J., Ed.; Zilliox, Joseph T., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
This volume of the 27th International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education Conference includes the following research reports: (1) Improving Decimal Number Conception by Transfer from Fractions to Decimals (Irita Peled and Juhaina Awawdy Shahbari); (2) The Development of Student Teachers' Efficacy Beliefs in Mathematics during…
Descriptors: Student Teachers, Mathematics Education, Teacher Effectiveness, Metalinguistics