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Fan, Lianghuo; Qi, Chunxia; Liu, Xiaomei; Wang, Yi; Lin, Mengwei – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
We conducted an intervention-based study in secondary classrooms to explore whether the use of geometric transformations can help improve students' ability in constructing auxiliary lines to solve geometric proof problems, especially high-level cognitive problems. A pre- and post-test quasi-experimental design was employed. The participants were…
Descriptors: Intervention, Secondary School Mathematics, Geometry, Validity
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Cox, Caryl; Mouw, John T. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1992
The explicit, experimental introduction of a series of logical inconsistencies is described and recommended as a means of disrupting the faulty logic and, thereby, enhancing the use of more appropriate probabilistic reasoning by graduate students enrolled in an introductory inferential statistics course. (14 references) (JJK)
Descriptors: Heuristics, Higher Education, Logical Thinking, Mathematics Education
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Adjiage, Robert; Pluvinage, Francois – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
This paper summarizes our analysis of the complexity of ratio problems at Grades 6 and 7, and reports a two-year experiment related to the teaching and learning of rational numbers and proportionality in these grades. Two classes were followed and observed. Part of the teaching material was common to both classes, mainly the objectives and the…
Descriptors: Grade 6, Students, Instructional Materials, Numbers