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Kulow, Torrey; Izsák, Andrew; Stevenson, Dean – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
The present study extends recent advances developing and applying measures of mathematical content knowledge for teaching. Recent research has demonstrated that the Diagnosing Teachers' Multiplicative Reasoning Fractions survey provides information about distinct but related components necessary for reasoning in terms of quantities when solving…
Descriptors: Fractions, Arithmetic, Thinking Skills, Numbers
Southeast Comprehensive Center, 2018
The Alabama State Department of Education (ALSDE) was grappling with several issues including: (1) A respectable rate of growth in student achievement for both fourth- and eighth-grade math in the state of Alabama, as measured by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), but below the national average; and (2) A growing concern about…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 4, Grade 8, National Competency Tests
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Austin, Pam; Carbone, Rose Elaine; Webb, Paul – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
This research study, carried out in South Africa and the United States of America, investigated issues that may hamper prospective primary school teachers from writing acceptable problem posing scenarios involving the addition of fractions. Pre-service teachers (n=44) were asked to compose real life problems involving the addition of two fractions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics), Addition, Fractions