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Bennett Attaway; John Voiklis; Jena Barchas-Lichtenstein; Eric Hochberg; Jim Hammerman; Uduak Grace Thomas; Nicole LaMarca; Laura Santhanam; Patti Parson – Numeracy, 2023
Because people are constantly confronted with numbers and mathematical concepts in the news, we have embarked on a project to create journalism that can support news users' number skills. But doing so requires understanding (1) journalists' ability to reason with numbers, (2) other adults' ability to do so, and (3) the attributes and affordances…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Habit Formation, News Media, Adults
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Thouless, Helen; Gifford, Sue – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2019
In this article we compare two frameworks for analysing young children's responses to the task of copying and extending a 6-dot triangle pattern. We used Mulligan & Mitchelmore's Awareness of Mathematical Pattern and Structure (AMPS) and then Biggs & Collis' SOLO taxonomy, both of which provide criteria for assigning levels. In comparison…
Descriptors: Preschool Children, Pattern Recognition, Geometric Concepts, Disadvantaged Youth
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Lee, Kerry; Ng, Swee Fong; Pe, Madeline Lee; Ang, Su Yin; Hasshim, Muhammad Nabil Azhar Mohd; Bull, Rebecca – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2012
Background: Exposure to mathematical pattern tasks is often deemed important for developing children's algebraic thinking skills. Yet, there is a dearth of evidence on the cognitive underpinnings of pattern tasks and how early competencies on these tasks are related to later development. Aims: We examined the domain-specific and domain-general…
Descriptors: Evidence, Structural Equation Models, Standardized Tests, Numeracy