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Peer reviewedMiller, Brian; Perry, Bob; Howard, Peter; Farmer, Pat; Long, Michelle; Roffe, Stephen – Literacy Learning: Secondary Thoughts, 1999
Notes that students often find difficulty with the language used in the learning of and assessment of mathematics. Reports on a study that analyzes questions from a 1996 Higher School Certificate Mathematics in Society examination in New South Wales. Makes suggestions on changing the language of the assessment to make the mathematics in it more…
Descriptors: Evaluation Problems, Foreign Countries, Language Processing, Language Research
Peer reviewedMiura, Irene T.; Okamoto, Yukari – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1989
The relationship between mathematics performance and fundamental linguistic variations in the cognitive representation of numbers was assessed, using 24 first graders each from the United States and Japan. Results indicate that the Japanese cognitive representation of number positively affects the understanding of place value. No gender…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Comparative Analysis, Cross Cultural Studies, Elementary Education
