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The Sums Are Larger than Their Natural Number Addends: Relation to Operands Understanding Predicts Growth in Arithmetic/Algebraic Problem Solving
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Wong, Terry Tin-Yau; Kwan, Kam-Tai – Developmental Psychology, 2023
The relation to operands (RO) principles describe the relation between operands and answers in arithmetic problems (e.g., the sum is always larger than its positive addends). Despite being a fundamental property of arithmetic, its empirical relation with arithmetic/algebraic problem solving has seldom been investigated. The current longitudinal…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Arithmetic, Problem Solving, Algebra
Mathematical Problem-Solving and Metacognitive Skills of 5th Grade Students as a Function of Gender and Level of Academic Achievement
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Al Shabibi, Amal A.; Alkharusi, Hussain – Cypriot Journal of Educational Sciences, 2018
This study aimed to investigate differences in the mathematical problem-solving and metacognitive skills of the fifth-grade students in Oman as a function of gender and level of academic achievement. The participants were 90 grade five students randomly selected from one educational governorate in the Sultanate of Oman. They were evenly divided…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Metacognition, Intelligence Tests
Collaborative Resolution of Logical Problems in Symmetry and Cognitive Asymmetry Conditions
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Castellaro, Mariano; Roselli, Néstor – Journal of Educational Psychology - Propositos y Representaciones, 2018
The article aims to study the verbal collaborative interaction in both symmetrical and asymmetrical dyads according to specific individual cognitive competence. The interaction was analyzed in terms of cognitive and non-cognitive aspects. 19 dyads (38 fifth and sixth graders) participated. First, they individually solved a set of logical problems…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 5, Grade 6, Cooperative Learning
Effects of LEGO Mindstorms on Convergent and Divergent Problem-Solving and Spatial Abilities in Fifth and Sixth Grade Students
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Lance W. Gibbon – ProQuest LLC, 2007
In this quasi-experimental study, 142 fifth and sixth grade students at a suburban elementary school in Northwest Washington State participated in a week-long, 10-hour project using the "LEGO Mindstorms Robotics Invention System" (RIS). Partners constructed and programmed one robot from visually-based LEGO instructions and a second of…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Grade 6, Toys, Convergent Thinking
Transitions in the Reasoning of Pre- and Early Adolescents: A New Method of Assessment.
Hubbs-Tait, Laura – 1986
A task was developed to differentiate the reasoning of elementary school students in fifth, sixth, and seventh grades. Subjects completed 16 matrices containing two, three, or four dimensions and varying in the embeddedness of the dimensions. They also solved a formal operational task assessing ability to isolate, exclude, and include variables.…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Developmental Stages, Elementary Education
Performance on Raven's Progressive Matrices of Elementary-School Negro Children Involved in an Algebra Program.
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Wirtz, Lyndall R. – 1971
Evidence for suggested basic differences in the abstract reasoning capacity of Negro and Caucasian children includes consistent findings of significantly poorer performance by Negroes on Raven's Progressive Matrices (PM). This study investigated the PM performance of Negro children taught algebra via a discovery method of instruction. It was…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Algebra, Black Youth, Concept Formation