This deconstruction of the space into parts was non-trivial for students, who had not yet learned a rectangular area formula or how to find areas of composite shapes (both of which would appear in the curriculum later). Fig. 3 Using grid paper to find the area of the leaf in a ...
Developing students’ intuitive concepts of number towards rational number reasoning is challenging for learners and teachers (Merenluoto & Lehtinen,2004; Vosniadou et al.,2008). Even instructional interventions that aim to elicit conceptual change appear to have limited effects on student learning, f...
In Curriculum in Focus: Research Guided Practice-Proceedings of the 37th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia; Anderson, J., Cavanagh, M., Prescott, A., Eds.; MERGA: Sydney, Australia, 2014; pp. 191–198. 20. Radford, J.; Ireson, J.; Mahon, M....