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Park, Do-Yong; Park, Mi-Hwa; Bates, Alan B. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This case study explores young children's understanding and application of the concept of volume through the practices of engineering design in a STEM activity. STEM stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. However, engineering stands out as a challenging area to implement. In addition, most early engineering education…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Engineering Education, Geometry, Design
Ayan, Rukiye; Isiksal Bostan, Mine – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
In this study, we investigate sixth, seventh, and eighth grade students' achievement in nonlinear (quadratic or cubic) proportional problems regarding length, area, and volume of enlarged figures. In addition, we examine students' solution strategies for the problems and obstacles that prevent students from answering the problems correctly by…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Geometry
Martínez-Sierra, Gustavo; García-González, María del Socorro – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
Little research in the field of Mathematics Education is directed towards emotions of students beyond their emotions in problem-solving. In particular, the daily emotions of students in a mathematics class have been sparsely studied in the field of mathematics education. In order to fill this gap, this qualitative research aims to identify high…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education, High School Students
Huang, Hsin-Mei E. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2017
This study examined the effectiveness of 3 curriculum interventions focused on strengthening children's ability to solve area measurement problems and explored the instructional perspectives of the instructor who implemented the interventions. The interventions involved various degrees of emphasis on area measurement and knowledge of 2-dimensional…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Curriculum, Program Effectiveness, Intervention
Kontorovich, Igor'; Koichu, Boris – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This paper is concerned with organizational principles of a pool of familiar problems of expert problem posers and the ways by which they are utilized for creating new problems. The presented case of Leo is part of a multiple-case study with expert problem posers for mathematics competitions. We present and inductively analyze the data collected…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Expertise, Problem Solving, Mathematics
Roorda, Gerrit; Vos, Pauline; Goedhart, Martin J. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2015
This article reports on a longitudinal observation study about students' development in their use of procedures to calculate instantaneous rate of change. Different procedures for solving tasks on rate of change are taught in mathematics and physics classes, and together they form a repertoire. Our study took an actor-oriented perspective, which…
Descriptors: High School Students, Problem Solving, Secondary School Mathematics, Calculus
Hu, Bi Ying; Fuentes, Sarah Quebec; Wang, Chun Yan; Ye, Feiwei – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
In 2001, the Chinese Ministry of Education issued Guidelines for Preschool Education (GPE) (trial version) to call on early childhood practitioners to use a child-centered and play-based approach to teaching and learning. The guidelines also include mathematics within the science domain and described its standards in a way that significantly…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Guidelines, Preschool Education, Preschool Teachers
Chen, Yi-Chun; Yang, Fang-Ying – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2014
There were two purposes in the study. One was to explore the cognitive activities during spatial problem solving and the other to probe the relationship between spatial ability and science concept learning. Twenty university students participated in the study. The Purdue Visualization of Rotations Test (PVRT) was used to assess the spatial…
Descriptors: Cognitive Ability, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving, Science Instruction
Cheek, Kim A. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
An understanding of geologic time is comprised of 2 facets. Events in Earth's history can be placed in relative and absolute temporal succession on a vast timescale. Rates of geologic processes vary widely, and some occur over time periods well outside human experience. Several factors likely contribute to an understanding of geologic time, one of…
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematical Concepts, Geology, Time
Alsawaie, Othman N. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2012
The purpose of this study was to explore strategies used by high-achieving 6th grade students in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) to solve basic arithmetic problems involving number sense. The sample for the study consisted of 15 high-achieving boys and 15 high-achieving girls in grade 6 from 2 schools in the Emirate of Abu Dhabi, UAE. Data for the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Arithmetic, Grade 6, Textbooks
Kaur, Berinderjeet – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2011
This paper explores the nature and source of mathematics homework and teachers' and students' perspectives about the role of mathematics homework. The subjects of the study are three grade 8 mathematics teachers and 115 of their students. Data from field notes, teacher interviews and student questionnaire are analysed using qualitative methods.…
Descriptors: Homework, Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Grade 8
Chiu, Mei-Shiu – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
This study investigated the approaches to teaching by three fifth-grade teachers' of creative and non-creative mathematical problems for fractions. The teachers' personal constructs of the two kinds of problems were elicited by interviews through the use of the repertory grid technique. All the teaching was observed and video-recorded. Results…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics
Zevenbergen, Robyn; Zevenbergen, Kelly – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2009
Within increasing pressure on young people to perform successfully in work, there is a growing concern regarding their levels of numeracy (and literacy). Whether such concerns are founded is the basis of this paper. This paper reports on the numeracy practices undertaken by three young boatbuilders who were nearing the completion of their 4-year…
Descriptors: Employees, Numeracy, Mathematics Skills, Job Skills
Olive, John; Caglayan, Gunhan – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2008
This study examines 8th grade students' coordination of quantitative units arising from word problems that can be solved via a set of equations that are reducible to a single equation with a single unknown. Along with Unit-Coordination, Quantitative Unit Conservation also emerges as a necessary construct in dealing with such problems. We base our…
Descriptors: Grade 8, Word Problems (Mathematics), Teaching Methods, Algebra