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Price, Beth; Steinle, Vicki; Stacey, Kaye; Gvozdenko, Eugene – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This study reports on the use of formative, diagnostic online assessments for the topic percentages. Two new item formats (drag-drop and slider) are described. About one-third of the school students (Years 7 to 9) could, using a slider, estimate "80% more than" a given length, in contrast with over two-thirds who could estimate "90%…
Descriptors: Computation, Mathematical Concepts, Formative Evaluation, Diagnostic Tests
Wander, Roger; Pierce, Robyn – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 2009
In early 2008 researchers from the University of Melbourne's "New Technologies for Teaching Mathematics" project created a lesson for the Year 10 students at their Victorian research schools. Two important goals of secondary school mathematics education are to build students' conceptual knowledge and to teach students to think…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Animals, Mathematics Education, Problem Sets