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Adleff, Ann-Kristin; Ross, Natalie; König, Johannes; Kaiser, Gabriele – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Tasks play an important role in mathematics education, as they provide opportunities for students to develop their competencies and to cognitively engage with the mathematical content. The potential for cognitive activation as a central feature of a mathematical task has been considered in numerous studies, mostly as a didactical analysis by means…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Activities
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Wegner, Sven-Ake – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
In this article we present the prototype of a workshop on naive set theory designed for high school students in or around the seventh year of primary education. Our concept is based on two events which the author organized in 2006 and 2010 for students of elementary school and high school, respectively. The article also includes a practice report…
Descriptors: Workshops, Mathematical Concepts, Theories, Secondary School Mathematics
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Caswell, Rosemaree – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2006
The author recently read a research paper by Padberg (2002), in which the development of understanding associated with decimal fractions was studied. Padberg (2002) outlined the situation that existed in Germany, where students were introduced to decimal fractions in the sixth year of school. He claimed that it was assumed students would have a…
Descriptors: Prior Learning, Foreign Countries, Arithmetic, Primary Education