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

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2017-02-05

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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.

Subject Keywords

Integers, Contextual problems, Negativity

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/79188

Conference Name

10th Congress of the European-Society-for-Research-in-Mathematics-Education (CERME), 2017

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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.