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Mamolo, Ami; Pali, Rebeka – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2014
This article examines pre-service secondary school teachers' responses to a learning situation that presented a student's struggle with determining the area of an irregular hexagon. Responses were analyzed in terms of participants' evoked concept images as related to their knowledge at the mathematical horizon, with attention paid…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Secondary School Mathematics
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Tirosh, Dina; Stavy, Ruth – 1992
A study was conducted in Israel to determine effects of external similarity in problem structure on students' responses. Fifty students from each of the 7th, 8th, 10th, and 12th grade levels were presented with three problems involving successive divisions that were similar in structure. The problems asked separately whether the processes of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts