Recently added articles from Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics:

Kindergarten and first graders' knowledge of the number symbols: production and recognition.(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Mark-Zigdon, Nitza ... The Hindu-Arabic number system represents amounts of objects by number symbols, without referring to other properties of these objects (e.g., color, size). That is to say that the number symbols, like many other symbols, are linked to the objects that they represent in an arbitrary but ...

Teacher-developed mathematics performance assessments in the context of reform-based professional development.(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Bahr, Damon L. ... One of the disappointments associated with the mathematical reform movement is the increasing mismatch between the improvements made in curriculum and instruction and prevalent assessment modes (Firestone & Schorr, 2004; Niss, 1993). Despite early calls for change in assessment practice, ...

A complex system analysis of practitioners' discourse about research.(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Groth, Randall E. ... The recent past has seen an increasing frequency of calls for teachers to implement "evidence-based" practices (Davies, 1999; U.S. Department of Education, 2002). At the same time, it has been noted that teachers see research as largely irrelevant to practice (Lester & William, 2002; ...

From an operational to a relational conception of the equal sign: third graders' developing algebraic thinking.(Report)

Jan 01, 2008; Molina, Marta ... As algebra has taken a more prominent role in mathematics education, many are advocating introducing children to it in primary school (e.g., Carraher, Schliemann, Brizuela, & Earnest, 2006; Kaput, 2000; National Council of Teacher of Mathematics, 2000), and open number sentences can be a ...