Browsing by Author "Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra"
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CERME7 Working Group 7: Mathematical potential, creativity and talent
Leikin, R.; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Singer, F. M.; Ulovec, A. (2012)WG7 was a new CERME WG, whose purpose to draw the attention of the mathematics education community to the field of mathematical potential, creativity and talent, and to encourage empirical research that will contribute to ...
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Book Chapter
Characteristics of the creative person in mathematics.
Kattou, Maria; Christou, Constantinos; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra (Nova Science Publishers, 2016)
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Conference Object
Classroom assessment tasks and learning trajectories.
Demosthenous, Eleni; Christou, Constantinos; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra (Freudenthal Group & Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University and ERME., 2019)
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Cognitive styles, dynamic geometry and measurement performance
Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Christou, Constantinos (2009)This paper reports the outcomes of an empirical study undertaken to investigate the effect of students’ cognitive styles on achievement in measurement tasks in a dynamic geometry learning environment, and to explore the ...
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Cognitive styles, task presentation mode and mathematical performance
Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Christou, Constantinos (Routledge, 2009)This paper reports the outcomes of an empirical study undertaken to investigate the relationship of prospective teachers' cognitive styles and levels of performance in measurement and spatial tasks. A total of 116 prospective ...
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Connecting mathematical creativity to mathematical ability
Kattou, Maria; Kontoyianni, Katerina; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Christou, Constantinos (2013)This study aims to investigate whether there is a relationship between mathematical ability and mathematical creativity, and to examine the structure of this relationship. Furthermore, in order to validate the relationship ...
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Book Chapter
Creativity and imagination in mathematics
Christou, Constantinos; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra
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Creativity and mathematics education: The state of the art
Leikin, R.; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra (2013)This paper draws connections between studies in general creativity and studies in mathematics education. Through analysis of the state of the art in the research in creativity as associated with mathematics education we ...
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Book Chapter
Developing and Enhancing Elementary School Students' Higher Order Mathematical Thinking with SimCalc
Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Sophocleous, Paraskevi; Christou, Constantinos (Springer, 2013)A fundamental question regarding the use of technology in mathematics education is the way in which technology supports and promotes higher order thinking in mathematics. In this chapter, we try to describe and analyze the ...
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Different Types of Algebraic Thinking: an Empirical Study Focusing on Middle School Students
Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Chimoni, Maria; Christou, Constantinos (2020)Central in the frameworks that describe algebra from K-12 is the idea that algebraic thinking is not a single construct, but consists of several algebraic thinking strands. Validation studies exploring this idea are ...
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Drawing on a theoretical model to study students' understandings of fractions
Charalambous, Charalambos Y.; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra (2007)Teaching and learning fractions has traditionally been one of the most problematic areas in primary school mathematics. Several studies have suggested that one of the main factors contributing to this complexity is that ...
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A Dyslexic Child’s Mental Representations and Strategies in Elementary Arithmetic
Xistouri, Xenia; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Gagatsis, Athanasios (2006)This article investigates the mental representations and strategies of a 7-year old dyslexic boy, in the context of elementary arithmetic. The investigation had two distinct phases. The first aimed at investigating the ...
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Conference Object
Elementary School Students' Mental Representation of Fractions
Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Gray, Eddie M.; Christou, Constantinos (International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004)Based on psychological approaches that evoke mental representations through verbal and visual cues, this paper investigates the different kinds of mental representations projected by 8 to 11 year old children of identified ...
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The embodied, proceptual, and formal worlds in the context of functions
Christou, Constantinos; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Souyoul, A.; Zachariades, Theodosis (2005)In this study we use Tall et al.’s (2000) theory on mathematical concept development, which describes three worlds of operations, the embodied, the proceptual and the formal (Tall, 2004; Tall, 2003; Watson, Spirou, & Tall, ...
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An empirical taxonomy of problem posing processes
Christou, Constantinos; Mousoulides,Nicholas G.; Pittalis, Marios; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Sriraman, Bharath (2005)This article focuses on the construction, description and testing of a theoretical model of problem posing. We operationalize procesess that are frequently described in problem solving and problem posing literature in order ...
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Estructura y niveles de habilidad en estudiantes de escuela primaria sobre geometría transformacional
Xistouri, Xenia; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Gagatsis, Athanasios (2014)This paper used CFA analyses to investigate the factors and structure of transformational geometry concepts ability. The results suggest that the three geometric transformations (translation, reflection and rotation) consist ...
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Conference Object
Evaluating the effectiveness of an intervention program that enhances students’ mathematical creativity (in greek).
Kattou, Maria; Christou, Constantinos; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra (University of Cyprus, 2019)
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Examining early algebraic thinking: insights from empirical data
Chimoni, Maria; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Christou, Constantinos (2018)The aim of this study is to better understand the notion of early algebraic thinking by describing differences in grade 4–7 students’ thinking about basic algebraic concepts. To achieve this goal, one test that involved ...
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Examining number sense and algebraic reasoning through cognitive styles
Chrysostomou, Marilena; Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Tsingi, C.; Cleanthous, Eleni; Christou, Constantinos (2013)Recently, a new cognitive style approach was introduced, which refers to two types of visualizers. This approach is based on neuropsychological evidence and neuroimaging results, which suggest the existence of two distinct ...
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Exploring a high achiever's and a low achiever's strategies and images in early number work
Pitta-Pantazi, Demetra; Gagatsis, Athanasios (2001)Curriculum development within mathematics is often grounded in the belief that all individuals pass through the same sequence of learning, albeit at different paces. There seems to be a general assumption that there is ...