Children building on success: mathematical problem solving in the early years
Voutsina, C. and Jones, K. (2005) Children building on success: mathematical problem solving in the early years. In, British Educational Research Association annual conference 2005 (BERA2005), University of Glamorgan, Wales, UK, 14 - 17 Sep 2005.
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This paper provides evidence of how children can build on their initial successful problem solving approaches in a way that promotes their creative thinking and triggers further learning. The findings come from a project that studied the process of change in 5-6 year old children’s successful problem solving approaches when tacking a multiple-step arithmetic task. Micro-developmental changes in children’s successful strategies were studied by closely observing children’s problem solving behaviour, during a sequence of sessions during which they engaged in solving the same form of addition task more than once, and after they had already been successful. Changes in successful problem solving behaviour were analysed using Karmiloff-Smith’s model of Representational Redescription (RR). The paper presents examples of different types of children’s organisational strategies and shows that children do move beyond success, and do introduce qualitative changes to their successful problem solving strategies.
| Item Type: | Conference or Workshop Item (Paper) |
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| Additional Information: | pdf to be added |
| Keywords: | pedagogy, curriculum, teaching, learning, arithmetic, problem solving, strategies, behaviour, behavior, primary, elementary, early years, representational redescription, concept, conceptual, procedure, procedural, understanding, change |
| Subjects: | L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB2361 Curriculum L Education > LB Theory and practice of education L Education > LB Theory and practice of education > LB1501 Primary Education |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Education > Professional Practice & Pedagogy |
| Item ID: | 41290 |
| Date Deposited: | 15 Aug 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Mar 2012 11:48 |
| Contributors: | Voutsina, C. (Author) Jones, K. (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Additional Information: | pdf to be added |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/41290 |
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