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Dogan, Adem; Sir, Havva Kevser Yildirim – Journal of Education and Learning (EduLearn), 2022
One of the most fundamental subjects of primary school mathematics, the concept of fraction plays a key role in students' educational background. Students experience difficulties and misconceptions regarding this concept. Therefore, it is of great importance to understand this subject well and to use different teaching methods and techniques.…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Fractions, Computation
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Breive, Svanhild – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2020
This paper reports on a case study which explores the co-creation of a zone of proximal development (ZPD) in a mathematics teaching-learning activity in a Norwegian kindergarten. To capture the complexity of teaching and learning mathematics in kindergarten the study uses qualitative methods within an interpretative paradigm. The findings…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Teacher Student Relationship
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Lukác, Stanislav; Gavala, Tadeáš – ICTE Journal, 2019
The probability is exceptional in the teaching of mathematics because students often have difficulties to understand the basic terms and the problem solving strategies. Understanding lacks of the probability concept and various types of misconceptions arise from the misleading intuition and misinterpretations of experience with the stochastic…
Descriptors: Interaction, Worksheets, Visualization, Probability
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Bofferding, Laura – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
This chapter focuses on the interaction of two first graders as they attempt to make sense of a particular instructional context for learning negative numbers. The context is one where they move an elevator to a building's floors above and below ground in order to model integer addition and subtraction problems. In particular, the focus of the…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Concepts, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction
Holm, Jennifer, Ed.; Mathieu-Soucy, Sarah, Ed.; Oesterle, Susan, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2017
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2017 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at McGill University in Montreal, Quebec June 2-6. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Writing Exercises, Mathematical Concepts
Oesterle, Susan, Ed.; Allan, Darien, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2015
This submission contains the Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Meeting of the Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG), held at the Université de Moncton in Moncton, New Brunswick. The CMESG is a group of mathematicians and mathematics educators who meet annually to discuss mathematics education issues at all levels of learning. The aims of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Teaching Methods, Interdisciplinary Approach
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Civil, Marta; Díez-Palomar, Javier; Menéndez, José María; Acosta-Iriqui, Jesús – Adults Learning Mathematics, 2008
In this paper we discuss a study that looks at the kinds of practices that Latino parents use to support their children's learning of mathematics. Some of our findings reveal that parents react to their children's mathematics education looking back to their own experiences as students. Thus, in some cases, they are faced with pedagogical…
Descriptors: Interaction, Parent Child Relationship, Hispanic Americans, Mathematics Instruction