Most Recent Articles from Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics

• Kindergarten and first graders' knowledge of the number symbols: production and recognition 

  The study of arithmetic in elementary school often commences with a structured teaching-learning process of the Hindu-Arabic number system. In the...

  01/01/08 by Nitza Mark-Zigdon · More from publication

• From an operational to a relational conception of the equal sign: third graders' developing algebraic thinking 

  We describe a teaching experiment about third grade students' understanding of the equal sign and their initial forays into analyzing expressions....

  01/01/08 by Marta Molina · More from publication

• Teacher-developed mathematics performance assessments in the context of reform-based professional development 

  As an integral part of a two-year professional development program, 85 elementary teachers developed and administered grade-level specific...

  01/01/08 by Damon L. Bahr · More from publication

• A complex system analysis of practitioners' discourse about research 

  This study describes the nature of the discourse among a group of practitioners as they studied a research report describing students'...

  01/01/08 by Randall E. Groth · More from publication

• Class within a class: a systematic approach to teaching high school mathematics students with special needs 

  Abstract Abstract A general education teacher completed an action research project in order to serve his students with special needs better by...

  09/22/07 by Angela L.E. Walmsley · More from publication

• Efficacy beliefs, problem posing, and mathematics achievement 

  Abstract Abstract Perceived self-efficacy beliefs have been found to be a strong predictor of mathematical performance while problem posing is...

  09/22/07 by Aristoklis A. Nicolaou · More from publication

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