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Nur Aini Khoo Ahmad Fuad Khoo; Heng Wen Qi; Sharifah Osman – International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 2025
Students are indeed weak when it comes to understanding fractions and decimals. In line with the national curriculum, whole numbers and fractions are taught first before students start to learn decimals. By the time the students approach decimals, they should have acquired sufficient knowledge of whole numbers but limited knowledge of fractions.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Instructional Innovation, Teaching Models
Ding, Rui; Huang, Rongjin; Deng, Xixi – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
The mathematics education literature indicates a consensus regarding the importance of developing algebraic thinking in elementary school mathematics. However, the approaches used to implement this concept vary around the world. This study examines how a popular standards-based elementary mathematics textbook series in China provides opportunities…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Task Analysis
Zhao, Xiaoyan; Van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; Veldhuis, Michiel – International Journal of STEM Education, 2016
Background: This paper reports on the use of classroom assessment techniques (CATs) by primary school mathematics teachers in China. CATs are short, focused assessment activities that can reveal students' understanding of specific mathematical subjects. The study involved six female third-grade mathematics teachers from Nanjing, China. The focus…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Teachers, Student Evaluation, Evaluation Methods
Torbeyns, Joke; Schneider, Michael; Xin, Ziqiang; Siegler, Robert S. – Grantee Submission, 2015
Numerical understanding and arithmetic skills are easier to acquire for whole numbers than fractions. The "integrated theory of numerical development" posits that, in addition to these differences, whole numbers and fractions also have important commonalities. In both, students need to learn how to interpret number symbols in terms of…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Comprehension, Arithmetic, Numeracy
Liu, Ru-De; Ding, Yi; Zong, Min; Zhang, Dake – School Science and Mathematics, 2014
The aim of this study was to examine the concept development of decimal numbers in 244 Chinese elementary students in grades 4-6. Three grades of students differed in their intuitive sense of decimals and conceptual understanding of decimals, with more strategic approaches used by older students. Misconceptions regarding the density nature of…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
Lai, Mun Yee; Murray, Sara – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2012
In mathematics education, there has been tension between deep learning and repetitive learning. Western educators often emphasize the need for students to construct a conceptual understanding of mathematical symbols and rules before they practise the rules (Li, 2006). On the other hand, Chinese learners tend to be oriented towards rote learning…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Symbols (Mathematics), Rote Learning
Xin, Yan Ping; Liu, Jia; Zheng, Xiaoning – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
This study compared one lesson across four U.S. "traditional" textbook series, two U.S. reform-based textbook series, and one Chinese mathematics textbook series in teaching the connection between multiplication and division. The results showed the differences across U.S. and Chinese lessons in both the teaching and the practice parts of…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Problem Solving, Multiplication, Arithmetic
Feil, YingYing Crystal – ProQuest LLC, 2010
This dissertation presents two studies designed to examine the topic of fraction division in selected Chinese and US curricula. By comparing the structure and content of the Chinese and "Everyday Mathematics" textbooks and teacher's guides, Study 1 revealed many different features presented in the selected curricula. Major differences…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Prior Learning, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods
Li, Yeping – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2008
Many mathematics educators believe that it is insufficient for students' knowledge of the division of fractions to be limited to the invert-and-multiply algorithm, arguing that students' learning of mathematics must go beyond rote memorization of procedures. Teachers ought to carefully consider what students need to learn beyond the algorithmic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods
Xin, Ziqiang; Lin, Chongde; Zhang, Li; Yan, Rong – Educational Psychology in Practice, 2007
Compared with standard arithmetic word problems demanding only the direct use of number operations and computations, realistic problems are harder to solve because children need to incorporate "real-world" knowledge into their solutions. Using the realistic word problem testing materials developed by Verschaffel, De Corte, and Lasure…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Arithmetic, Word Problems (Mathematics), Foreign Countries
Zhou, Zheng; Peverly, Stephen T. – Psychology in the Schools, 2005
Cross-cultural studies on mathematical cognition and education have suggested that curriculum and teaching have contributed to U.S. versus Asian differences in student performance; however, previous discussions of curriculum and teaching practices have been very general and have not focused on a detailed analysis of how mathematics concepts are…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 1, Arithmetic, Subtraction
Chu-Chang, Mae, Ed. – Chinese Education, 1984
Discussed are Chinese research studies and experiments dealing with the following topics: programed instruction; teaching methods in mathematics; teaching reading using the concentrated character recognition method; the three-in-one method for teaching arithmetic; the ease of learning to read Chinese characters; and the teaching of languages. (RM)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Comparative Education, Educational Practices, Educational Research