The purpose of this research is to compare American and Albanian students' achievement in Algebra 1 and to identify the educational practices that influence students' achievement in each country. The study compared algebraic solving abilities of 242 ninth-grade American students in Grand Forks (U.S.) and 219 students in Durres (Albania). The data…

Curriculum reform in Ontario secondary schools proposed that the assessment of student achievement be separated into academic achievement and non-academic achievement or the behaviours that can influence academic achievement. The purpose of this study was to explore teachers' assessment practices of non-academic achievement in Ontario' s grade 9…

This study compares two E-learning environments: E-learning supported with IMPROVE self-metacognitive questioning (EL+IMP), and E-learning without explicit support of self-regulation (EL). The effects were compared between mathematical problem-solving and self-regulated learning (SRL). Participants were 65 ninth-grade students who studied linear…

Research in mathematical problem solving has produced significant results in trying to understand what people do to solve problems. An important part of the solution process is the presence of both cognitive and metacognitive strategies. This paper documents the extent to which 13 ninth grade students are able to recognize the basic structure of a…

A COURSE IS PRESENTED FOR STUDENTS WHOSE NEEDS WOULD NOT BE SERVED BY REGULAR 9TH GRADE MATHEMATICS. GENERAL MATHEMATICS AS TREATED HERE IS MORE THAN ARITHMETICAL COMPUTATION. IT CONTAINS ELEMENTS OF ALGEBRA, GEOMETRY, AND TRIGONOMETRY. THE AIM IS TO CONTRIBUTE TO THE GENERAL DEVELOPMENT OF THE STUDENT THROUGH--AN APPRECIATION AND UNDERSTANDING OF…

For the last three years the author of this paper has been teaching mathematics to a group of students at Year 9 level who have rarely had success in mathematics, particularly in the area of algebra. Most of these students struggle with algebraic concepts and processes and generally have poor retention of any acquired knowledge. For the two years…

This article describes a subset of results from a larger study (Rubel, 2002) that explored middle school and high school students' probabilistic reasoning abilities across a variety of probabilistic contexts and constructs. Students in grades 5, 7, 9, and 11 at an urban, private school for boys (n = 173) completed a Probability Inventory,…

In 2 studies, an expectancy-value framework was applied to investigate effort expended on mathematics homework. In Study 1 (2,712 students in grades 5, 7, and 9; mean age=13.37 years), lower homework effort was found in higher grades. The effects of intrinsic value on homework effort were higher in the older cohorts, whereas the effects of the…

IN TEACHING THE SLOW LEARNER, LITTLE USE SHOULD BE MADE OF READING AND BOOK STUDY. THESE PUPILS HAVE TROUBLE IN DEFINING, DISTINGUISHING, ANALYZING, AND MEMORIZING, AND ARE LOW IN ACHIEVEMENT, DOMINANCE, IMAGINATION, AND CURIOSITY. THEIR ACTIVITIES SHOULD BE SIMPLE, WITH EMPHASIS ON THE CONSTRUCTIONAL AND MANUAL. CLASS ROUTINE SHOULD BE STRICT AND…

Examined grade nine student reflection during mathematics problem-solving situations in which students worked individually, collaborated in small groups, subsequently wrote group reports, then engaged in a teacher-led discussion in which students reported on the process. Found that reporting was a social practice through which private artifacts…

Discusses students' use of visual considerations in doing geometrical proofs. Studies ninth-grade students (n=17) in an academically-selective high school in Jerusalem. Concludes that only three out of 16 students who turned in their papers chose symmetry considerations when working on a proof. Contains 16 references. (ASK)

Activities that promote student invention can appear inefficient, because students do not generate canonical solutions, and therefore the students may perform badly on standard assessments. Two studies on teaching descriptive statistics to 9th-grade students examined whether invention activities may prepare students to learn. Study 1 found that…

This article describes how a mathematics teacher uses literature and creative writing in her ninth-grade classes to motivate, instruct, and assess her students. (Contains 4 figures.)

THIS EXPERIMENT TESTED AND EVALUATED THE CHANGE IN ACHIEVEMENT AND ATTITUDE TOWARD MATHEMATICS OF NINTH-GRADE, ELEMENTARY ALGEBRA PUPILS SUBJECTED TO TWO METHODS OF INSTRUCTION. TWO HYPOTHESES WERE TESTED--(1) CLASSES TAUGHT BY INDIVIDUALIZED AND TRADITIONAL METHODS DO NOT DIFFER IN NINTH-GRADE ALGEBRA ACHIEVEMENT AND (2) INDIVIDUALIZED AND…

Two Colorado teachers' attempts to individualize mathematics instruction in grades 7 and 9 in small schools are reviewed. The seventh-grade teacher utilized multi-level textbooks in individualizing instruction. The results of the program were evaluated by the California Arithmetic Test. Grade placement for reasoning and mathematics fundamentals…