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Do Secondary School Students' Strategies in Solving Permutation and Combination Problems Change with Instruction?
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Lamanna, Luca; Gea, María Magdalena; Batanero, Carmen – Canadian Journal of Science, Mathematics and Technology Education, 2022
This work is part of an investigation conducted in Italy, which aims to explore the effects of instruction on secondary school students' combinatorial reasoning. We gave a questionnaire adapted from Navarro-Pelayo's research to two groups of students with and without instruction on combinatorics in order to analyse the students' performances and…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Abstract Reasoning
On the Integration of Digital Technologies into Mathematics Classrooms
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Hoyles, Celia; Noss, Richard; Kent, Phillip – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2004
Trouche's [Third Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education Symposiums, Reims, France, June 2003] presentation at the Third Computer Algebra in Mathematics Education Symposium focused on the notions of instrumental genesis and of orchestration: the former concerning the mutual transformation of learner and artefact in the course of constructing…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Formulas, Algebra
The Colour of Bubbles
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Huang, Ding-wei; Huang, Wei-neng; Tseng, Hsiang-chi – Physics Education, 2005
Students of General Physics often complain that the course is too abstract and remote from daily life. As teachers, we emphasize that the abstract concepts of physics are indispensable for understanding our daily experiences, and we try to give the impression that quantitative descriptions can be achieved by adopting concrete mathematical…
Descriptors: Physics, Problem Solving, Science Education, Mathematical Formulas
Proceedings of the Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (29th, Melbourne, Australia, July 10-15, 2005). Volume 2
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Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
This document contains the second volume of the proceedings of the 29th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. Conference papers are centered around the theme of "Learners and Learning Environments." This volume features 43 research reports by presenters with last names beginning between Adl…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Multilingualism, Research Reports, Symbols (Mathematics)