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50 Years of ERIC
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Identification of Students' Intuitive Mental Computational Strategies for 1, 2 and 3 Digits Addition and Subtraction: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications
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Ghazali, Munirah; Alias, Rohana; Ariffin, Noor Asrul Anuar; Ayub, Ayminsyadora – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2010
This paper reports on a study to examine mental computation strategies used by Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3 students to solve addition and subtraction problems. The participants in this study were twenty five 7 to 9 year-old students identified as excellent, good and satisfactory in their mathematics performance from a school in Penang, Malaysia.…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Foreign Countries, Number Concepts, Subtraction
Examining the Changes in Novice and Experienced Mathematics Teachers' Questioning Techniques through the Lesson Study Process
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Ong, Ewe Gnoh; Lim, Chap Sam; Ghazali, Munirah – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2010
The purpose of this study was to examine the changes in novice and experienced mathematics teachers' questioning techniques. This study was conducted in Sarawak where ten (experienced and novice) teachers from two schools underwent the lesson study process for fifteen months. Four data collection methods namely, observation, interview, lesson…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Questioning Techniques, Mathematics Teachers, Beginning Teachers
Solution Strategies, Modes of Representation and Justifications of Primary Five Pupils in Solving Pre Algebra Problems: An Experience of Using Task-Based Interview and Verbal Protocol Analysis
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Ling, Gan We; Ghazali, Munirah – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2007
This descriptive study was aimed at looking into how Primary 5 pupils solve pre-algebra problems concerning patterns and unknown quantities. Specifically, objectives of this study were to describe Primary 5 pupils' solution strategies, modes of representations and justifications in: (a) discovering, describing and using numerical and geometrical…
Descriptors: Protocol Analysis, Word Problems (Mathematics), Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
From Doing to Understanding: An Assessment of Malaysian Primary Pupils' Number Sense with Respect to Multiplication and Division
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Ghazali, Munirah; Idros, Sharifah Norhaidah; McIntosh, Alistair – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2004
Number sense, an integral part of the curriculum in primary school mathematics, has always been thought of as playing a major role in pupils' understanding and use of numbers in calculation. Research in number sense has been carried out in the West, as well as in Malaysia. That a study of such a nature be done to reflect on the abilities of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Number Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Multiplication