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Theodore M. Savich – ProQuest LLC, 2022
We need a critical mathematics. Our ability to enact social change through teaching mathematics and through critical research in mathematics education is severely limited by the canon of mathematical knowledge and the ideology that declares mathematical knowledge as certain. In this dissertation I extend Carspecken's critical action theory to…
Descriptors: Critical Theory, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, Social Change
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Luebeck, Vanoli; Lindsay, Jennifer – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
This article describes a carefully structured exploration of formative assessment, conducted in the form of a classroom research experiment. The authors are an instructor and a student in a graduate course that assigned teachers to research formative assessment strategies, implement one or more strategies for several weeks, collect data from…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Educational Research, Feedback (Response)
Stacey, Kaye – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
"Specific Mathematics Assessment that Reveal Thinking" (abbreviated as "smart tests") provide an on-line formative assessment of middle years students. They aim to put information from research on students' understanding directly into the hands of teachers, by providing quick automated diagnosis of learning for all students in…
Descriptors: Formative Evaluation, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Educational Research
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Boyer, Kristy Elizabeth, Ed.; Yudelson, Michael, Ed. – International Educational Data Mining Society, 2018
The 11th International Conference on Educational Data Mining (EDM 2018) is held under the auspices of the International Educational Data Mining Society at the Templeton Landing in Buffalo, New York. This year's EDM conference was highly competitive, with 145 long and short paper submissions. Of these, 23 were accepted as full papers and 37…
Descriptors: Data Collection, Data Analysis, Computer Science Education, Program Proposals
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Vanicek, Jiri – International Journal for Technology in Mathematics Education, 2007
In the early stages of working with dynamical geometry environments, students make many more mistakes than if they thought out and implemented the same constructions on paper. Most Czech teachers have very little experience of doing geometry using computers. A methodology which could help them to teach students to avoid mistakes dependent on the…
Descriptors: Geometry, Foreign Countries, Educational Research, Teaching Methods
Berger, Dale E.; Wilde, Jeffrey M. – 1984
Algebra word problems were analyzed in terms of the information integration tasks that are required to solve the problems. These tasks were classified into three levels: value assignment, value derivation, and equation construction. Novices (35 first year algebra students) and experts (13 analytic geometry students) were compared on the proportion…
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction
Resnick, Lauren B. – 1982
This paper is concerned with the role of meaning and understanding in the acquisition of computational skill in subtraction. Evidence on the syntactic nature of subtraction errors is reviewed, with common "bugs" described. Then, data collected from interviews with four children are summarized in terms of their semantics of concrete…
Descriptors: Addition, Computation, Educational Research, Elementary Education
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Sleeman, Derek H. – Mathematics in School, 1984
The performance of 60 fourth form pupils who had been taught to solve algebraic equations by the algorithmic or flow chart method was studied. A sizeable number of pupils were not using the flow chart method. Other types of errors are noted. (MNS)
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Research, Equations (Mathematics), Error Patterns
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Kuchemann, Dietmar – Mathematics in School, 1983
Evidence was collected to support previous research findings that children prefer quantitative to formal methods of solving linear equations. They find formal methods difficult. How to help them become more receptive to learning formal methods is discussed. (MNS)
Descriptors: Algebra, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction
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Edwards, Jo – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1984
On the Australian Mathematics Competition, boys responded correctly to more questions than did girls, but this difference came largely from a handful of questions. Responses to questions where sex differences occurred are discussed. (MNS)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Error Patterns, Mathematics Instruction, Secondary Education
Quintero, Ana Helvia – 1984
This study focused on analyzing children's difficulties with two-step mathematical word problems. Seventy-one fifth-grade children in Puerto Rico were individually observed solving five problems. Two of these were two-step problems; the remaining three were one-step problems with the same mathematical structures as the components of the two-step…
Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Error Patterns, Grade 5
Ohlsson, Stellan; Rees, Ernest – 1988
Children learn arithmetic procedures by rote, rather than by constructing them with an understanding of numbers. Rote learning produces lack of flexibility, nonsensical errors, and other difficulties. Proposed is a theory of conceptual understanding and its role in learning and executing arithmetic procedures. The basic hypothesis is that…
Descriptors: Computation, Computer Simulation, Concept Formation, Educational Research
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Kilian, Lawrence; And Others – Arithmetic Teacher, 1980
A study to determine if "random" or "careless" errors in multiplication made by individual students take on discernible patterns is described. Implications for teaching are discussed. (MK)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Resnick, Lauren B. – 1984
Research recurrently indicates that children who have difficulty with arithmetic often use systematic routines that yield wrong answers. Recent research has focused less on identifying the most common errors among groups of children and more on analyzing individual children's errors. This paper considers the source of systematic errors in…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Educational Research
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Williams, Paul D. – Mathematics and Computer Education, 1987
In this study, 35 students in two sections of a second remedial mathematics course for technical majors were given lectures with and without intentional errors. Achievement in the non-error group was higher, but evaluation scores for teachers making errors were higher. (MNS)
Descriptors: College Students, Educational Research, Error Patterns, Higher Education
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