1. Children's understandings of algebra 30 years on.
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Hodgen, Jeremy, Küchemann, Dietmar, Brown, Margaret, and Coe, Robert
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EDUCATIONAL attainment research , *PERFORMANCE in children , *ALGEBRA education , *MATHEMATICS education , *SURVEYS , *REASONING in children , *NINETEEN seventies , *MATHEMATICAL analysis - Abstract
The article focuses on the research project Increasing Student Competence and Confidence in Algebra and Multiplicative Structures (ICCAMS), aimed at finding ways to enhance students' attainment and participation in various fields including mathematics, science, and engineering. The research is being done in England and it consists of two phases. The first phase involves a survey on the accomplishment of multiplicative reasoning and algebra in students of 11-14 years of age while the second phase focuses on a collaborative study to improve their attainment. The project also compares children's current attainment with that during the 1970s.
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- 2009
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