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Mathematics in the streets and in schools
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In this article, an analysis of everyday use of mathematics by working youngsters in commercial transactions in Recife, Brazil, revealed computational strategies different from those taught in schools Performance on mathematical problems embedded in real-life contexts was superior to that on school-type word problems and context-free computational problems involving the same numbers and operations.Abstract:
An analysis of everyday use of mathematics by working youngsters in commercial transactions in Recife, Brazil, revealed computational strategies different from those taught in schools Performance on mathematical problems embedded in real-life contexts was superior to that on school-type word problems and context-free computational problems involving the same numbers and operations Implications for education are examinedread more
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Bilingual literacy and academic success among Samoan born students in a New Zealand secondary school : a thesis presented in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Masterate in Education at Massey University
TL;DR: Furthennore et al. as discussed by the authors studied the first language reading behavior of Samoan bilingual students in English immersion education in New Zealand and found a strong inverse correlation between length of residence and reading ability in the two languages.
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Developing Mathematical Knowledge Through Microworlds
TL;DR: This chapter sets out to examine some aspects, both positive and negative, of the role of the computer in the learning of mathematics, namely environments built with interactive software which is user rather than menu-driven.
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Weighing up the Influence of Context on Judgements of Mathematical Literacy
TL;DR: This paper explored the effect that differences in the way that a mathematical task is contextualized can have on students' mathematical arguments and, therefore, on their perceived levels of mathematical literacy, and found that the context of the task affects what students perceive to be most relevant approaches to use, which are reflected in the arguments they give.
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Characteristics of Mathematics Items Associated With Gender DIF
TL;DR: In this article, two alternative approaches to parsing items based on structural characteristics related to particular cognitive strategies could be used to help explain gender differential item functioning, and the results suggested that the method was useful in predicting gender DIF.
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Children's Minds
TL;DR: Donaldson as discussed by the authors argues that reading is even more important than we have thought it to be, since learning to read ca actually speed children through the crucial transition from preschool to school.
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Cognitive development : its cultural and social foundations
TL;DR: In the early 1930s, Luria and his colleagues studied perception, abstraction, reasoning, and imagination among several remote groups of Uzbeks and Kirghiz from cloistered illiterate women to slightly educated new friends of the central government as mentioned in this paper.
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Natural and contrived experience in a reasoning problem
P. C. Wason,Diana Shapiro +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the effects of prior experience on a deceptive reasoning problem was investigated and the results showed that prior experience was ineffective in allowing subsequent insight to be gained into the problem.
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Na vida dez; na escola zero: os contextos culturais da aprendizagem da matemática.
TL;DR: A concepcao de fracasso escolar aparece alternativamente como fracassos dos individuos (Poppovic, Esposito e Campos, 1975), fracasses of uma classe social (Lewis, 1967, Hoggart, 1957) ou fraccasso de um sistema social, economic, e politico (Freitag, 1979; Porto, 1981) that pratica uma seletividade socio-economica indevida.