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Pierson, Ashlyn E.; Brady, Corey E.; Clark, Douglas B.; Sengupta, Pratim – Cognition and Instruction, 2023
Research about modeling emphasizes the importance of heterogeneity in science learning. At the same time, a growing body of scholarship seeks curricular pathways for epistemic and representational convergence. In response to this tension, we propose two constructs: heterogeneity-seeking curricula and commitments. Heterogeneity-seeking curricula…
Descriptors: Epistemology, Models, Science Education, Science Curriculum
Investigating the Processes of Teacher and Researcher Empowerment and Learning in Co-Design Settings
Kyza, Eleni A.; Agesilaou, Andria – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
Discussions about power have only recently begun to appear in the learning sciences literature. Most of this important work takes a critical perspective; the present work complements these efforts by examining power sharing as a catalyst for empowerment in teacher-researcher co-design. Even though teacher-researcher collaborations are discussed in…
Descriptors: Researchers, Cooperation, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Teachers
Azevedo, Flávio S.; Mann, Michele J. – Cognition and Instruction, 2022
We investigate fifth-grade students' identity work and science learning at the margins of a science classroom. By "margins" we refer to activities unrelated to formal classroom instructional content and practices, and which unfold across many settings and contexts, including the classroom itself, but also multi-party, social group…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Identification (Psychology), Self Concept, Science Education
Resnick, Ilyse; Newcombe, Nora; Goldwater, Micah – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
There is strong evidence from research conducted in the United States that fraction magnitude understanding supports mathematics achievement. Unfortunately, there has been little research that examines if this relation is present across educational contexts with different approaches to teaching fractions. The current study compared fourth and…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 6, Mathematics Skills
Ngo, Vy; Perez Lacera, Luisa; Closser, Avery Harrison; Ottmar, Erin – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
For students to advance beyond arithmetic, they must learn how to attend to the structure of math notation. This process can be challenging due to students' left-to-right computing tendencies. Brackets are used in mathematics to indicate precedence but can also be used as superfluous cues and perceptual grouping mechanisms in instructional…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Arithmetic, Symbols (Mathematics), Computation
Bakker, Merel; Pelgrims, Elise; Torbeyns, Joke; Verschaffel, Lieven; De Smedt, Bert – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
While symbolic number processing is an important correlate for typical and low mathematics achievement, it remains to be determined whether children with high mathematics achievement also have excellent symbolic number processing abilities. We investigated this question in 64 children (aged 8 to 10), i.e., 32 children with persistent high…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Numbers, High Achievement, Mathematics Achievement
Seowon Song; Tianyu Li; Michaela Quintero; Zhe Wang – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2023
The present study tested the learning avoidance model by examining the degree to which learning avoidance in various afterschool settings mediated the negative association between math anxiety and math achievement. Participants consisted of 207 third to sixth graders. Using a path model, findings showed that students' math anxiety was negatively…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Grade 3, Grade 4
Chang Xu; Hongxia Li; Sabrina Di Lonardo Burr; Jiwei Si; Jo-Anne LeFevre; Xinfeng Zhuo – Journal of Cognition and Development, 2024
Students' understanding of the meaning of the equal sign develops slowly over the primary grades. In addition to updating their representations of equations to recognize that the equal sign represents an equivalence relation rather than signaling an operation, students need to move beyond full computation to efficiently solve equivalence problems.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Grade 3, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Tzur, Ron; Johnson, Heather Lynn; Norton, Anderson; Davis, Alan; Wang, Xin; Ferrara, Michael; Harrington, Cody; Hodkowski, Nicola Mercedes – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
We examine a hypothesis implied by Steffe's constructivist model of children's numerical reasoning: a child's "spontaneous" additive strategy may relate to a foundational form of multiplicative reasoning, termed multiplicative double counting (mDC). To this end, we mix quantitative and qualitative analyses of 31 fourth graders' responses…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Mathematics Skills, Elementary School Students, Grade 4
Lee, Victor R.; Drake, Joel; Cain, Ryan; Thayne, Jeffrey – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
Given growing interest in K-12 data and data science education, new approaches are needed to help students develop robust understandings of and familiarity with data. The model of the "quantified self"--in which data about one's own activities are collected and made into objects of study--provides inspiration for one such approach. By…
Descriptors: Statistics Education, Familiarity, Self Concept, Prior Learning
Panorkou, Nicole – Cognition and Instruction, 2021
This study presents the results of a series of design experiments that aimed to engage twelve fourth-grade students in mathematical activity exploring the volume of right prisms and cylinders as a dynamic sweep of a surface through a height, an approach that is referred to as Dynamic Measurement for Volume (DYME-V). This article describes this…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Measurement, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
Scheibling-Sève, Calliste; Gvozdic, Katarina; Pasquinelli, Elena; Sander, Emmanuel – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Proportional reasoning is a key topic both at school and in everyday life. However, students are often misled by their preconceptions regarding proportions. Our hypothesis is that these limitations can be mitigated by working on alternative ways of categorizing situations that enable more adequate inferences. Multiple categorization triggers…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 4, Grade 5, Cognitive Processes
Halme, Hilma; Trezise, Kelly; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna M.; McMullen, Jake – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Mathematics anxiety hinders students' mathematical achievement already in primary school, but research on its effects beyond whole number knowledge is limited. The main aim of the current study is to examine how state and trait mathematics anxiety relate to performance across five tasks that are relevant for the development of mathematics in…
Descriptors: Mathematics Anxiety, Mathematics Achievement, Elementary School Students, Symbols (Mathematics)
Poloczek, Sebastian; Hammerstein, Svenja; Büttner, Gerhard – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Being able to perform computational estimations efficiently is an important skill. Furthermore, computational estimation experiments are used to study general principles in strategy development. Rounding strategies are common in computational estimation. However, little is known about whether and when children use a mixed-rounding strategy (i.e.,…
Descriptors: Children, Learning Strategies, Mathematics Skills, Computation
Määttä, Saku; Hannula-Sormunen, Minna; Halme, Hilma; McMullen, Jake – Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2022
Learning fractions poses a challenge for many elementary school students, including applying fraction knowledge in novel contexts. For instance, there are substantial individual differences in students' tendency of spontaneous focusing on quantitative relations (SFOR), which is related to the development of rational number knowledge. In this…
Descriptors: Attention, Intervention, Elementary School Students, Grade 4