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Mielicki, Marta K.; Fitzsimmons, Charles J.; Woodbury, Lauren H.; Marshal, Hannah; Zhang, Dake; Rivera, Ferdinand D.; Thompson, Clarissa A. – Grantee Submission, 2021
Prior work exploring preschool-aged children's reasoning with repeating patterns has shown that patterning ability is an important predictor of math achievement; however, there is limited research exploring older children's growing pattern task performance. The current study tested whether presentation format impacts performance on growing pattern…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Mathematics Skills, Number Concepts, Word Problems (Mathematics)
Akhtar, Zarina; Steinle, Vicki – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
The study was designed to probe students' thinking about which numerical values can be assigned to algebraic letters. The data from students in Year 7 (n = 533), Year 8 (n = 377) and Year 9 (n = 172) was analysed using response patterns. The data confirmed that each year contained students with two misconceptions; "Different Letter means…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Algebra, Student Attitudes
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Ko, Yi-Yin – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
To implement current reforms regarding proof and reasoning in secondary school mathematics successfully, pre-service secondary mathematics teachers must have adequate understandings of concepts across mathematical domains for their future teaching. This paper examined the strategies that pre-service secondary mathematics teachers had for…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge