ERIC Number: ED592499
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2018
Pages: 8
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Measuring Mental Computational Fluency with Addition: A Novel Approach
Russo, James; Hopkins, Sarah
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (41st, Auckland, New Zealand, 2018)
Measuring computational fluency, an aspect of procedural fluency, is complex. Many attempts to measure this construct have emphasised accuracy and efficiency at the expense of flexibility and appropriate strategy choice. Efforts to account for these latter constructs through assessing children's computational reasoning using structured interviews (e.g., MAI), are necessarily time-intensive. In this paper, we introduce a novel measure of Mental Computational Fluency with Addition (MCF-A) that attempts to incorporate these aspects by requiring children to reason from the perspective of another child. We describe results of a pilot study using the MCF-A with 169 Year 3 and 4 students.
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Thinking Skills, Mathematics Skills, Addition, Arithmetic, Mathematics Tests, Children, Educational Innovation, Perspective Taking, Problem Solving, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Authoring Institution: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Identifiers - Location: Australia
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