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Fadrik Adi Fahrudin; Cholis Sa'Dijah; Erry Hidayanto; Hery Susanto – Qualitative Research in Education, 2024
Reversibility thinking carried out mentally in mathematical operations has an important role in the process of understanding concepts as it involves developing a thinking process from beginning to end and from end to beginning. This qualitative research aims to describe students' reversible thinking processes in solving algebra problems,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 9, Mathematics Education, Algebra
Ling Zhang; Naiqing Song; Guowei Wu; Jinfa Cai – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
This study concerns the cognitive process of mathematical problem posing, conceptualized in three stages: understanding the task, constructing the problem, and expressing the problem. We used the eye tracker and think-aloud methods to deeply explore students' behavior in these three stages of problem posing, especially focusing on investigating…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving, Eye Movements
Lu, Jijian; Wu, Shuqi; Wang, Yuyang; Zhang, Yiran – Asia-Pacific Education Researcher, 2023
The ability of solving problems collaboratively has been increasingly significant. This research takes mathematics open-ended problems as the tasks and carries out collaborative problem solving with multi-machine video recording in the classroom environment aimed at 112 student pairs and 56 four-person student groups stemming from 224 students in…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Mathematics Education, Grade 7
Nizaruddin; Kusmaryono, Imam – International Journal of Educational Methodology, 2023
This exploratory and descriptive study aims to theoretically promote the schema of pseudo-thinking processes in mathematical problem-solving by students. The participants in this study were 36 eighth graders and one math teacher. The researchers collected the data using tests and interviews. The results showed that the structure of pseudo-thinking…
Descriptors: Skill Development, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
Yu-Jen Sie; Kuen-Yi Lin – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2025
Project-based learning (PBL) plays a critical role in fostering interdisciplinary integration within science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) education. However, its complexity often hinders students' ability to apply knowledge and solve problems, particularly in environments that lack psychological and cognitive support. This…
Descriptors: Resilience (Psychology), Positive Attitudes, STEM Education, Internet
Miller-Cotto, Dana; Booth, Julie L.; Newcombe, Nora S. – Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2022
Both sketching and self-explanation are widely believed to be effective for problem-solving in science learning. However, it is unclear which aspects of these strategies promote learning and how they might interact. Compared to a read-only baseline, we examined the impact of instructing 11-year-old students to solve science problems to sketch,…
Descriptors: Freehand Drawing, Cognitive Processes, Middle School Students, Science Education
Aslan, Bilge Yilmaz; Özmusul, Begüm – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2022
In this study, it is aimed to determine the algebraic thinking habits of two eighth grade school students through the answers they gave in the process of solving mathematical problems. The algebraic habits of mind (ZCA) theoretical framework developed by Driscoll (1999) was used to reveal these thinking habits. The research design of this study is…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Logic, Cognitive Processes, Grade 8
Rahman, Zareen Gul – Educational Forum, 2023
Mathematics pre-service teachers (PSTs) need opportunities to learn best practices in teaching mathematics, e.g., productive struggle. Productive struggle happens when students work through challenging problems that are not straightforward. This paper describes mathematics PSTs' engagement with productive struggle in a mathematics methods course.…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Mathematics, Best Practices, Methods Courses
Kim, Kyung; Tawfik, Andrew A. – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2023
STEM Problem solving necessitates a substantial amount of specialized domain knowledge. An important element of problem-solving within the domain includes how knowledge is structured and organized in memory to facilitate efficient retrieval of relevant information and future problem solving. In previous studies, however, problem solving and…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Problem Solving, Cooperative Learning, Success
Reader, Tracey; Larkin, Kevin; Grootenboer, Peter – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2023
This conceptual paper discusses two frameworks, developed independently by the lead author, that will provide the conceptual foundation for the identification and evaluation of mental computation strategies students demonstrate during an upcoming research project entitled Mental Computation in Year 5. These frameworks will be used by the lead…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Mathematics Instruction
Tang Wee Teo – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Many empirical studies about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum present problems for students to solve. This paper draws upon the data collected from the enactment of an integrated STEM curriculum to discuss problems as constitutive of problem spaces where four Grade 5 Singapore students engage with the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Integrated Curriculum, Inquiry, Problem Solving
Shen, Ji; Chen, Guanhua; Barth-Cohen, Lauren; Jiang, Shiyan; Eltoukhy, Moataz – Journal of Research on Technology in Education, 2022
Computational thinking (CT) has been advocated as an essential problem solving skill students need to develop. Emphasizing on CT applied in both programming and everyday contexts, we developed a humanoid robotics curriculum and a computerized assessment instrument. We implemented the curriculum with six classes of 125 fifth graders. Quantitative…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Computation, Thinking Skills
Jenny Yun-Chen Chan; Avery Harrison Closser; Hannah Smith; Ji-Eun Lee; Kathryn C. Drzewiecki; Erin Ottmar – Grantee Submission, 2023
Prior work has established that cognitive and perceptual processes influence students' attention to notational structures in mathematical expressions, which in turn affects their problem-solving approaches and performance. Advances in educational technology provide opportunities to further investigate these processes, improve student learning, and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Technology, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
Xin Gong; Weiqi Xu; Shufan Yu; Jingjing Ma; Ailing Qiao – British Journal of Educational Technology, 2025
Tangible programming tools have become a mainstream teaching aid in gamification programming learning (GPL) due to their interactivity and ability to enhance novice learners' computational thinking and spatial reasoning skills. However, comparing the relative efficacy of different programming tools that simultaneously support these skills was not…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Spatial Ability, Gamification
Zeng, Yating; Chi, Shaohui; Wang, Zuhao; Zhuang, Xiaosong – Journal of Baltic Science Education, 2023
Online metacognitive skills are the real-time awareness of cognition, which can effectively promote science learning and improve performance in solving scientific problems. Therefore, it is important to enhance and diagnose students' online metacognitive skills in science education. This study aimed to evaluate ninth-grade students' online…
Descriptors: Test Construction, Test Validity, Grade 9, Metacognition