How middle-grade students explain ordering statements within real life situation? An example of temperature context

2017-02-05
Yılmaz, Ayşenur
Işıksal Bostan, Mine
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The purpose of the study is to examine the extent to which middle-grade students agree on statements about the ordering of two negative integers given within a real-life context, and what kind of procedural and conceptual strategies they generate to order those numbers. Data is collected through a questionnaire including two statements about ordering integers from fifty-seven middle-grade level students in a public school. The results show that even though students agreed with both of the statements, they did not explain the concept of ordering in daily life with regard to conceptual meanings and that they have problems in their procedural knowledge repertoire.
Integers, Contextual problems, Negativity
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79188
Department of Mathematics and Science Education, Conference / Seminar

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A. Yılmaz and M. Işıksal Bostan, “How middle-grade students explain ordering statements within real life situation? An example of temperature context,” Dublin, IRELAND, 2017, p. 411, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79188.
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