Proportional Reasoning Deficit in Dyslexia [PDF]
Brain Sciences, 2023 Dyslexia has been linked to an altered perception of metrical structures in language, but no study to date has explored the link between reading impairments and other forms of metrical thinking (e.g., proportional reasoning).
Giulia Cappagli +3 more
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From Non-symbolic to Symbolic Proportions and Back: A Cuisenaire Rod Proportional Reasoning Intervention Enhances Continuous Proportional Reasoning Skills [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2021 The persistent educational challenges that fractions pose call for developing novel instructional methods to better prepare students for fraction learning. Here, we examined the effects of a 24-session, Cuisenaire rod intervention on a building block for
Roberto A. Abreu-Mendoza +5 more
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The Role of Prior Knowledge and Intelligence in Gaining from a Training on Proportional Reasoning [PDF]
Journal of Intelligence, 2022 We explored the mediating role of prior knowledge on the relation between intelligence and learning proportional reasoning. What students gain from formal instruction may depend on their intelligence, as well as on prior encounters with proportional ...
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Utilizing Analogical Reasoning to Aid Children’s Proportional Reasoning Understanding
Journal of Numerical Cognition, 2019 Proportional reasoning is an important skill that relates to fraction learning and math achievement. Because both proportional and analogical reasoning involve comparing relations, we hypothesized that supports for analogical reasoning (multiple ...
Lillian Ham, Elizabeth A. Gunderson
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A Matter of Balance: Motor Control is Related to Children’s Spatial and Proportional Reasoning Skills [PDF]
Frontiers in Psychology, 2016 Recent research has shown close links between spatial and mathematical thinking and between spatial abilities and motor skills. However, longitudinal research examining the relations between motor, spatial, and mathematical skills is rare, and the nature
Andrea eFrick, Wenke eMöhring
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Facilitating proportional reasoning through worked examples: Two classroom-based experiments
Cogent Education, 2017 Within mathematics teaching, ways to help students resolve proportional reasoning problems remains a topical issue. This study sought to investigate how a simple innovative procedure could be introduced to enhance skill acquisition.
Brendan Bentley, Gregory C R Yates
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Improving middle school students’ proportional reasoning through STEM activities [PDF]
Journal of Pedagogical Research, 2022 The aim of this study was to examine the proportional reasoning skills of seventh-grade students before and after the implementation of STEM activities involving proportional and non-proportional relationships.
Nida Sultan Gündoğdu +1 more
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Promote proportional reasoning through digital technology
Apertura, 2023 This article explores alternative teaching methods that promote proportional reasoning in Mexican students aged fourteen to fifteen using digital technology. To this end, a sequence of didactic activities has been designed to give meaning to the concepts
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Hipotenusa, 2021 This study aims to analyze the proportional reasoning ability of junior high school level students in solving math problems between male and female students on the opportunity material. This type of research is qualitative research.
Kusnul Khotimah, Ali Shodikin
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Investigating teachers and prospective teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge in the field of proportional reasoning with a focus on their problem solving activities on semantic types [PDF]
Fanāvarī-i āmūzish, 2021 and is a potent means for developing algebraic thinking which necessitates students’ understanding of the functional relationship between measure spaces.
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