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Promoting Mathematical Competence Development through Programming Activities
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Andreas Brandsaeter; Runar Lie Berge – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2025
The reasons for teaching programming in school are indeed manifold. Programming can for example be utilized as a vehicle for understanding and learning particular mathematical subject matter, or as a tool for solving mathematical problems. In this paper, however, we propose to utilize programming as a vehicle for developing mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Skill Development, Competence, Programming
Strategic Competence for Multistep Fraction Word Problems: An Overlooked Aspect of Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching
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Copur-Gencturk, Yasemin; Doleck, Tenzin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2021
Prior work on teachers' mathematical knowledge has contributed to our understanding of the important role of teachers' knowledge in teaching and learning. However, one aspect of teachers' mathematical knowledge has received little attention: "strategic competence for word problems." Adapting from one of the most comprehensive…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Skills
Does Constructing Multiple Solutions for Real-World Problems Affect Self-Efficacy?
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Schukajlow, Stanislaw; Achmetli, Kay; Rakoczy, Katrin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2019
The development of multiple solutions for a given problem is important for learning mathematics. In the present intervention study, we analyzed whether prompting students to construct multiple solutions (more precisely: prompting them to apply multiple mathematical procedures to real-world problems) and prior self-efficacy influenced students'…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Self Efficacy, Teaching Methods, Student Attitudes
Confidence and Competence with Mathematical Procedures
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Foster, Colin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
Confidence assessment (CA), in which students state alongside each of their answers a confidence level expressing how certain they are, has been employed successfully within higher education. However, it has not been widely explored with school pupils. This study examined how school mathematics pupils (N?=?345) in five different secondary schools…
Descriptors: Competence, Self Efficacy, Mathematics Education, Problem Solving
Effects of Prompting Multiple Solutions for Modelling Problems on Students' Performance
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Schukajlow, Stanislaw; Krug, André; Rakoczy, Katrin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2015
Prompting students to construct multiple solutions for modelling problems with vague conditions has been found to be an effective way to improve students' performance on interest-oriented measures. In the current study, we investigated the influence of this teaching element on students' performance. To assess the impact of prompting multiple…
Descriptors: Prompting, Mathematics Instruction, Grade 9, Experimental Groups
Affect and Self-Regulation
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Malmivuori, Marja-Liisa – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
This paper presents affect as an essential aspect of students' self-reflection and self-regulation. The introduced concepts of self-system and self-system process stress the importance of self-appraisals of personal competence and agency in affective responses and self-regulation in problem solving. Students are viewed as agents who constantly…
Descriptors: Self Management, Self Actualization, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Competence