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Tiffany Yanyi Lee; Lit Wee Sim; Mohamed Syukri Bin Mohamed Anwar; Pierina Cheung; Kerry Lee; Daniel Ansari; Gianluca Esposito; Anne Rifkin-Graboi – European Journal of Psychology of Education, 2024
Mastery motivation predicts achievement, but intricacies amongst preschoolers are unclear. In keeping with the Specificity Principle, school-age, and adolescent research demonstrates the importance of considering the "setting conditions" in which mastery motivation is observed. Here, Singaporean 4-year-olds' (N = 63)…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Student Motivation, Numeracy, Mathematics Activities
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Eric, Chan Chun Ming; Vapumarican, Rashidah; Vanessa, Oh Kaiwen; Tracy, Liu Huanjia; Shirley, Seah Yew Hwee – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2016
The solving of structured multi-step word problems has been a dominant practice in schools and is seen as a way to develop students' mathematical reasoning abilities. Unfortunately, it is limited in scope and does not provide opportunities for eliciting deeper reasoning as they are neither rich enough nor anchored in authentic data that resemble…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Mathematical Logic, Elementary School Students, Word Problems (Mathematics)