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Lee, Jae Ki; Licwinko, Susan; Taylor-Buckner, Nicole – Journal of Mathematics Education at Teachers College, 2013
PEMDAS is a mnemonic device to memorize the order in which to calculate an expression that contains more than one operation. However, students frequently make calculation errors with expressions, which have either multiplication and division or addition and subtraction next to each other. This article explores the mathematical reasoning of the…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Logic
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Kachapova, Farida; Kachapov, Ilias – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2012
Research on teaching high school mathematics shows that the topic of percentages often causes learning difficulties. This article describes a method of teaching percentages that the authors used in university bridging courses. In this method, the information from a word problem about percentages is presented in a two-way table. Such a table gives…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Learning Problems, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics