论文信息 - TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN TO MAKE EXPLICIT THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF NEGATIVE MEASURES AND NEGATIVE RELATIONS

TEACHING YOUNG CHILDREN TO MAKE EXPLICIT THEIR UNDERSTANDING OF NEGATIVE MEASURES AND NEGATIVE RELATIONS

A previous study (Borba and Nunes, 1999; 2000) showed that young children solve negative number problems significantly better orally than when requested to provide an explicit representation for negative numbers before solving the problems. This paper presents an intervention study aimed at discussing with young children how they can explicitly represent the understanding they already have about negative numbers. It was also investigated if instruction on one number meaningmeasure or relation is transferred to another. All instructed groups improved in performance in comparison to a control group. Understanding of relation problems was transferred to measure problems but understanding of measures was not transferred to understanding of relations.

Terezinha Nunes | T. Nunes | Rute Borba | Rute Borba

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