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Tan, Hazel – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2012
In this paper, the relationships between students' beliefs about knowing and learning mathematics, and how they engage with calculators, are investigated. An online survey was conducted for 964 Singaporean and 176 Victorian senior secondary students. Students' "connected knowing-deep approach" conception of mathematics was found to be…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Calculators, Teaching Methods, Beliefs
Antonijevic, Radovan – Online Submission, 2007
The paper deals with the facts obtained from TIMSS 2003 (Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study). This international comparative study, which includes 47 participant countries worldwide, explores dependence between eighth grade students' achievement in the areas of mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology and geography, and basic…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Comparative Analysis, Grade 8, Mathematics Achievement
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Van den Brink, Jan – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1993
Offers 3 teaching designs developed for 12- to 16-year-old pupils taking into account personal differences in gender, culture, knowledge, and use of calculators. The designs concern the representation of three-dimensional objects in the plane, directions and great circles on the sphere, and exploration of the integrating calculator. (Contains 31…
Descriptors: Calculators, Cultural Differences, Geometric Concepts, Knowledge Level