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Alajmi, Amal Hussain – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2016
This study reports on the algebraic generalization strategies used by elementary and middle/high school pre-service mathematics teachers in Kuwait. They were presented with 9 tasks that involved linear, exponential, and quadratic situations. The results showed that these pre-service teachers had difficulty in generalizing algebraic rules in all 3…
Descriptors: Algebra, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Alajmi, Amal Hussain; Reys, Robert – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2010
This research documents Kuwaiti eighth grade students' performance in recognizing reasonable answers and the strategies they used to determine reasonableness. The results from over 200 eighth grade students show they were generally unable to recognize reasonable answers. Students' performance was consistently low across all three number domains…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Numbers, Foreign Countries, Grade 8