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Hybrids between Rituals and Explorative Routines: Opportunities to Learn through Guided and Recreated Exploration
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Christiansen, Iben Maj; Corriveau, Claudia; Pettersson, Kerstin – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
Within the commognitive perspective, ritual and explorative routines are used in a very particular way to distinguish students' routines according to whether they are driven by social reward or by generating a substantiated narrative. Explorative routines in this theorisation may refer not to inquiry-based activity but to the result of a student's…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Learning Processes, Discovery Learning
Exploring Secondary School Students' Geometrical Figure Apprehension: Cognitive Structure and Levels of Geometrical Ability
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Paraskevi Michael-Chrysanthou; Areti Panaoura; Athanasios Gagatsis; Iliada Elia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2024
The present study examines secondary school students' geometrical figure apprehension based on Duval's theoretical framework regarding perceptual, operative, and discursive apprehension. The aim is to explore the cognitive structure of the geometrical figure apprehension dimensions (operative, discursive, and perceptual) in three grades of…
Descriptors: Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Anxiety, Foreign Countries
Teaching Methods for Modelling Problems and Students' Task-Specific Enjoyment, Value, Interest and Self-Efficacy Expectations
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Schukajlow, Stanislaw; Leiss, Dominik; Pekrun, Reinhard; Blum, Werner; Muller, Marcel; Messner, Rudolf – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
In this study which was part of the DISUM-project, 224 ninth graders from 14 German classes from middle track schools (Realschule) were asked about their enjoyment, interest, value and self-efficacy expectations concerning three types of mathematical problems: intra-mathematical problems, word problems and modelling problems. Enjoyment, interest,…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Grade 9, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods
Data Modelling with First-Grade Students
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
This paper argues for a renewed focus on statistical reasoning in the beginning school years, with opportunities for children to engage in data modelling. Results are reported from the first year of a 3-year longitudinal study in which three classes of first-grade children (6-year-olds) and their teachers engaged in data modelling activities. The…
Descriptors: Statistics, Science Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Data Analysis