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Margaret Walton; Janet Walkoe – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
Seeds of Algebraic Thinking comes from the Knowledge in Pieces (KiP) perspective of learning. KiP is a systems approach to learning that stems from the constructivist idea that people learn by building on prior knowledge. As people experience the world, they acquire small, sub-conceptual knowledge elements. When people engage in a particular…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Prior Learning, Knowledge Level, Algebra
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Günes, Ahmet Melih – International Journal of Contemporary Educational Research, 2022
This research aims to determine the relationship between school principals' problem-solving skills, burnout levels and self-efficacy beliefs. A quantitative relational design was used in the study. The sample of the research consists of 224 school principals working in Balikesir. In the research, "Problem-solving Inventory",…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Burnout, Self Efficacy, Principals
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Dahn, Maggie; DeLiema, David – Computer Science Education, 2020
Background and Context: Women are underrepresented in the field of computer science, a trend that in part can be traced to girls' early experiences with the discipline. Objective: Our aim is to show how three girls who became strong coders talked about their debugging practice at the intersection of problem solving, emotion, and identity. Method:…
Descriptors: Psychological Patterns, Problem Solving, Identification (Psychology), Females
Kunkel-Pottebaum, Holly E. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
A case study was conducted to learn about the formation of social justice teachers, and the methods used by radical educators to engage students in social change. Interviews conducted with eight junior and senior high school social studies teachers identified several types of formative experiences inspiring teachers to become radical educators.…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Change Agents, Social Change, Social Justice
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Mousoulides, Nicholas G.; Christou, Constantinos; Sriraman, Bharath – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2008
This study analyzed the processes used by students when engaged in modeling activities and examined how students' abilities to solve modeling problems changed over time. Two student populations, one experimental and one control group, participated in the study. To examine students' modeling processes, the experimental group participated in an…
Descriptors: Intervention, Mathematical Models, Modeling (Psychology), Problem Solving
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Leader, Lars F.; Middleton, James A. – RMLE Online: Research in Middle Level Education, 2004
This review of research generates principles for the design of instructional programs that foster critical-thinking dispositions. The dispositional aspect of critical thinking may be considered part of attitudinal memory, readily activated if sufficiently strong. We describe evidence suggesting that ill-structured problem-solving can provide…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Critical Thinking, Sensory Experience