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Zwanch, Karen – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
The number sequences describe a hierarchy of students' concepts of number. This research uses two defining cognitive structures of the number sequences--units coordination and the splitting operation--to model middle-grades students' abilities to write linear equations representing the multiplicative relationship between two unknowns. Results…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Thinking Skills
Mitchell, Mathew – 1992
Classroom boredom in the secondary mathematics classroom is a problem that can be addressed from knowledge of the intrinsic motivational variable of "interestingness." The lack of a theoretical model of interest is an obstacle in research that investigates this variable. This paper describes the three stages in the development of a model…
Descriptors: Affective Behavior, Classroom Research, Cognitive Measurement, Cognitive Structures