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Kindergartners' performance in length measurement and the effect of picture book reading
(2011)
This paper addresses: firstly, kindergartners' performance in length measurement, the components of their performance and its growth over time; secondly, the possibility to develop kindergartners' performance in length ...
Exploring different aspects of the understanding of function: Toward a four-facet model
(2008)
Based on a synthesis of the relevant literature, this study explored students’ display of behavior in four aspects of the understanding of function: effectiveness in solving a word problem, concept definition, examples of ...
Kindergartners’ performance in two types of imaginary perspective-taking
(2015)
This study aimed at gaining further understanding of kindergartners’ performance in imaginary perspective-taking (IPT) by examining whether they can imagine what is visible from a particular point of view (IPT type 1: ...
Mathematical Working Spaces in schooling: an introduction
(2016)
The theoretical and methodological model of Mathematical Working Space (MWS) is introduced in this paper. For over 10�years, the model has been the object of collaborative research among various researchers, generally ...
Students’ mathematical work on absolute value: focusing on conceptions, errors and obstacles
(2016)
This study investigates students’ conceptions of absolute value (AV), their performance in various items on AV, their errors in these items and the relationships between students’ conceptions and their performance and ...
The structure of students' beliefs about the use of representations and their performance on the learning of fractionsEducational Psychology
(2009)
Cognitive development of any concept is related with affective development. The present study investigates students' beliefs about the use of different types of representation in understanding the concept of fractions and ...
Fostering representational flexibility in the mathematical working space of rational numbers
(2016)
The study focuses on the cognitive level of Mathematical Working Space (MWS) and the component of the epistemological level related to semiotic representations in two mathematical domains of rational numbers: fraction and ...
Pupils' visual representations in standard and problematic problem solving in mathematics: Their role in the breach of the didactical contract
(2009)
This study investigated the modes of representations generated by kindergarteners and first graders while solving standard and problematic problems in mathematics. Furthermore, it examined the influence of pupils' visual ...
Gesture in a kindergarten mathematics classroom
(2014)
Recent studies have advocated that mathematical meaning is mediated by gestures. This case study explores the gestures kindergarten children produce when learning spatial concepts in a mathematics classroom setting. Based ...