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Boyce, Steven – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2013
In this proposal, I introduce a method for modeling the dynamics of a sixth-grade student's accommodation of his fractions scheme to include a disembedding operation (Steffe & Olive, 2010). I will describe a three-part approach consisting of a constructivist teaching experiment, retrospective analysis, and stochastic modeling of the student's…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
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Wilson, Jeni; Clarke, David – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2004
Metacognition has been accorded a role in both mathematical problem solving and in the learning of mathematics. There has been consistent advocacy of the need for the promotion of metacognitive activity in both domains. Such advocacy can only be effective if the advocated process is well understood. In this paper we have four goals: to describe a…
Descriptors: Metacognition, Problem Solving, Mathematics, Grade 6