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Castro, Encarnación; Cañadas, María C.; Molina, Marta; Rodríguez-Domingo, Susana – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
This paper describes the difficulties faced by a group of middle school students (13- to 15-year-olds) attempting to translate algebraic statements written in verbal language into symbolic language and vice versa. The data used were drawn from their replies to a written quiz and semi-structured interviews. In the former, students were confronted…
Descriptors: Algebra, Middle School Students, Translation, Symbolic Language
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Joutsenlahti, Jorma; Kulju, Pirjo – Education Sciences, 2017
The purpose of this study is to present a multimodal languaging model for mathematics education. The model consists of mathematical symbolic language, a pictorial language, and a natural language. By applying this model, the objective was to study how 4th grade pupils (N = 21) understand the concept of division. The data was collected over six…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Arithmetic, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Berryman, J. P. – Mathematics Teaching, 1972
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computers, Machine Translation, Mathematics
LeBlanc, Mark D. – 1994
Relating natural language to mathematical language is an important component of elementary mathematics education. This paper describes new steps toward a computerized database of addition and subtraction word problems that could provide teachers and students with access to critical natural language terms and expressions for mathematical…
Descriptors: Addition, Arithmetic, Computer Simulation, Databases