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Direct linkKaratas, Sumeyra – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This quasi-experimental design study aimed to examine how exposure to supporting productive struggle teaching practice impacts students' conceptual understanding, procedural fluency, and strategic competence when solving high-demanding quadratic functions problem solving tasks. Results suggested that students in the supporting productive struggle…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Student Improvement, Mathematical Concepts
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Download full textMyers, Jeanine L.; Brown, Matt; Spittler-Brown, Kristi – Journal of Developmental Education, 2020
This article details the adaptation of the FOCUS (Fundamentals of Conceptual Understanding and Success) model (Mireles, Acee, & Gerber, 2014) implemented to improve student success in general education and developmental mathematics at a four-year rural university. The model has been demonstrated successful when implemented at a four-year large…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Remedial Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Student Improvement
Lauren W. Reynolds – ProQuest LLC, 2018
This study examined the effectiveness of the iPad app Mathspace on high school students' algebra computation and skill maintenance. The participants in this study were four ninth grade students enrolled in beginning algebra at a large, urban high school. All four students were struggling to obtain grade-level algebra skills and were reported by…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Algebra, Handheld Devices
Kolovou, Angeliki; van den Heuvel-Panhuizen, Marja; Koller, Olaf – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2013
This study investigated whether an intervention including an online game contributed to 236 Grade 6 students' performance in early algebra, that is, solving problems with covarying quantities. An exploratory quasi-experimental study was conducted with a pretest-posttest-control-group design. Students in the experimental group were asked to solve…
Descriptors: Intervention, Algebra, Student Improvement, Problem Solving
Hemphill, David C. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The first pretest-posttest hypothesis was tested using the dependent t test. Null hypotheses for test score improvement over time were rejected for the end of fifth-grade pretest compared to ending sixth-grade posttest math Essential Learner Outcome scores converted to standard scores for randomly selected sixth-grade girls meeting measured test…
Descriptors: Algebra, Readiness, Outcomes of Education, Grade 6
Hansen, Michele J.; Meshulam, Susan; Parker, Brooke – Learning Communities: Research & Practice, 2013
National attention is focused on the persistent high failure rates for students enrolled in math courses, and the search for strategies to change these outcomes is on. This study used a mixed-method research design to assess the effectiveness of a learning community course designed to improve the math performance levels of firstyear students.…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, Curriculum Design, Student Improvement, College Freshmen
