Reviews research into the impact of technology on teaching and learning in mathematics. Discusses the relationship between affective variables and performance, and having constructed appropriate measures of attitude. Presents the results from an extensive initial study that disentangles affects related to mathematics and computing, and in doing so…

Analyzes the notion of structuring resources and their role in shaping mathematical activity. Examines ways in which nurses conceptualize ratio and proportion problems and provides a case study of two nurses discussing conflicting strategies when monitoring the fluid balance of a patient. Draws out some implications for the design of viable…

Examines how the inclusion of everyday mathematics into classroom instruction can make mathematics more meaningful to students. Reviews concepts of mathematical meaningfulness and compares them to experiences of children learning about money at home and at school. Concludes that certain kinds of differences between everyday and school mathematics…

Reports on an intensive study of problem-solving activity of female students at the senior secondary level. Focuses on both the mathematical processing and the underlying cognitive and metacognitive activities that led to that processing. Concludes that all successful groups displayed a high number of key points where metacognitive decisions could…

Describes a teaching experiment in grade three based on (Adrian) Treffers' idea of vertical mathematization. Discusses the central components of the developed course. The teaching experiment is illustrated by means of children's own productions and put into broader context as contributing to the design science approach of mathematics education.…

Little evidence has been presented to support the claim that writing enhances learning in mathematics. Presents a scheme for coding the parts of written mathematical presentations. Describes a study done with eighth-grade students, the findings of which reveal that the writing closely resembled the style of the typical mathematics textbook used by…

Focuses on mathematics anxiety in 9- to 11-year-old children. Compares the mathematics anxiety of pupils taught in a traditional manner with that of pupils whose teachers adopted an alternative teaching approach that emphasizes problem solving and discussion of the pupil's own informal strategies. Concludes that pupils exposed to the traditional…

Examines the differences in preservice elementary school teachers' perceptions between divisibility by two, or evenness, and divisibility by another number. Concludes that the equivalence of the number properties of being even and being divisible by two is not taken for granted; rather, the parity is often perceived as a function of the last digit…

Argues that teachers' attitudes toward mathematics is put forward as a dominant factor in children's attitudes toward mathematics. Presents eight small studies of attitude which are carried out across the educational phases. Reports that attitude is seen as a complex notion at best. Contains 16 references. (Author/ASK)

Discusses recent changes in mathematics education and assessment in England and Wales against the background of research on mathematics performance and assessment. Reports findings from qualitative research with 10- to 11-year olds undertaken with the object of exploring the validity of the pilot pencil-and-paper tests in mathematics. Contains 49…

Investigates four seventh-grade teachers' awareness of students' tendency to conjoin or "finish" open expressions and teachers' ways of coping with this tendency. Concludes that two experienced teachers were aware of this tendency, whereas the novices were not, and teaching approaches related to this tendency differed considerably. Contains 24…

Reports on two closely related studies on students' tendency to use linear models in situations in which they are not applicable. Results provide a convincing demonstration of the predominance of the linear model in secondary students' solutions to this kind of mensurational problem. Contains 25 references. (Author/ASK)

Argues that deaf children lag behind their hearing cohorts in mathematics achievement tests and that this difficulty is a consequence of their lack of covert counting strategies and reliance on memorized verbal facts. Investigates the acquisition of an alternative method by deaf students (N=6). Recommends examining better ways to teach arithmetic…

Discusses solving rotation problems and shows that there is an alternative to using mental rotations or their encoding into verbal terms, namely using geometrical properties. Presents an analysis of the functionality and effectiveness of the different kinds of strategies as a function of the task's characteristics. Describes research to improve…

Presents a theoretical proposal of a methodology for the teaching of probability theory. Discusses the importance of the epistemological approach of Lakatos and the perspective of the conceptual change. Discusses research using a proposed didactic method with Spanish high school students (N=6). Concludes that significant differences on all…