Year Five Pupils’ Understanding of Generalised Arithmetic

• Authors: Leong Kwan Eu , Sharifah Norul Akmar , Piriya Somasundram

Abstracts

EN

This paper reports on the research on year five pupils’ understanding of generalised arithmetic, which aimed to investigate the understanding of year five pupils’ commutative property and the property of zero together with its correlation with their mathematical achievement. Data for the study were collected via paper and pencil assessment answers for two items. Findings showed moderate achievement for both of the tasks. The pupils’ explanation illustrated their poor conceptual understanding of commutative property and the property of zero. However, this understanding is not correlated with their mathematical achievement in school. It shows that an outstanding student in school did not necessarily acquire conceptual understanding of commutative principle and the property of zero.

Keywords

EN

algebraic thinking; generalisation; properties of operations; primary school; early algebra

• Publisher: Wydawnictwo Adam Marszałek
• Journal: The New Educational Review
• Year: 2017
• Volume: 49
• Pages: 176-188

Dates

published

2017

Contributors

author

Leong Kwan Eu

author

Sharifah Norul Akmar

author

Piriya Somasundram

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Identifiers

DOI

10.15804/tner.2017.49.3.14

Biblioteka Nauki

1997750