Browsing by Subject "Mathematics achievement"
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Elementary School Students' Mental Representation of Fractions
(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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Emerging Themes from Early Research on Self-Efficacy Beliefs in School Mathematics
(Electronic Journal of Research in Educational Psychology, 2008)Self-efficacy, an individual's belief about his or her ability to engage in a task and accomplish it, has been investigated across multiple domains of human action. Students' perceived efficacy in school mathematics in ...
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The Number Line as a Representation of Decimal Numbers: A Research with Sixth Grade Students
(International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2004)One of the aims of mathematics instruction is to achieve the understanding of mathematical concepts through the development of rich and well organized cognitive representations (Goldin, 1998; NCTM, 2000; DeWindt-King, & ...