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Download full textHo, Siew Yin; Logan, Tracy – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
This paper describes Singapore and Australian Grade 6 students' (n=1,187) performance on a symmetry task in a recently developed Mathematics Processing Instrument (MPI). The MPI comprised tasks sourced from Australia and Singapore's national assessments, NAPLAN and PSLE. Only half of the cohort solved the item successfully. It is possible that…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Geometry, Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries
Logan, Tracy; Ho, Siew Yin – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
Australian and Singaporean students have been exposed to different forms of teaching due to cultural differences in education. In each country, varying degrees of importance has been placed on explicitly teaching problem-solving heuristics. This paper highlights the different strategies employed by students from each country when solving a word…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Cultural Differences, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Instruction
