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In four different countries, including our own, the same problems keep cropping up - children do not connect simple tasks, such as sharing, with the written fractions they meet in class. Research and...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Lessons from Mrs A and Mrs P: Helping Children Understand the Formal Symbolic Language of Arithmetic
The way infant children learnt some new maths was matched with the way their teachers taught. The result is some more hints for the struggle of 'how to get it right.'
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A very carefully run experiment in Ballarat High School shows definite benefits for schools like Ballarat H.S. These benefits, and critical comments, are detailed.
| Year published: 1990 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
7/16ths, is it bigger or smaller than 8/17ths?
Fractions are notoriously difficult. Difficult to learn and difficult to teach. I have carried out, with help, some research which throws light on the...
| Year published: 1989 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research into mathematics education has highlighted that many students struggle to develop an appropriate understanding of the equals sign. When over 300 students at a large intermediate school were...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Free Full text: set2003_2_04.pdf | Content type: Set article
Six parents of Year 4–6 students at a rural primary school were interviewed to explore their perspectives on the mathematics education of their children.
| Year published: 2005 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is a lot to be learnt about how to teach a subject from what practitioners do every day. An insight into what delights mathematicians and what could delight our pupils.
| Year published: 1993 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The author describes a study in which videotaped interviews from the NEMP project were analysed to see how children explained their answers to questions involving the commutative (“changing the order...
| Year published: 2002 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The focus of this article is the strategies that young children use to find the volume of rectangular prisms. Children were observed during teaching sessions and their solutions to follow-up...
| Year published: 2003 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Years 4 and 5 students explore and articulate their understanding of number properties. How can their ability to think algebraically be enhanced?
| Year published: 2007 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article