PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS

Yeliz Yazgan

TR

PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS

Abstract

Primary goal of this study is to analyze to what extent fourth and fifth graders can coordinate number of people sharing and number of things being shared to solve equal sharing problems, and which strategies in the taxonomy established by Charles and Nason they use to provide this coordination. To this aim, 3 partitioning problems were asked to a group of fourth and fifth grade students. They worked on each problem in pairs without any intervention about their solution processes. All papers on which students solved the problems were evaluated to determine partitioning strategies of students. Results showed that (i)regrouping, partition and quantify by part-whole notion, and whole to each person then half the remaining objects between half the people strategies were the most popular strategies, and (ii) only a small percent of fourth and fifth graders could use Class 1 strategies, and this means that they have low abstraction level of fractions.

Keywords

,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,Fractions,Equal Sharing,Partitioning Strategies

Details

Primary Language

Turkish

Subjects

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Journal Section

Research Article

Authors

Yeliz Yazgan This is me

Publication Date

May 1, 2010

Submission Date

August 9, 2014

Acceptance Date

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Published in Issue

Year 2010 Volume: 5 Number: 4

IZ

https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB

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RIS / Bibtex

APA

Yazgan, Y. (2010). PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS. Education Sciences, 5(4), 1628-1642. https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB

AMA

1.Yazgan Y. PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS. Education Sciences. 2010;5(4):1628-1642. https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB

Chicago

Yazgan, Yeliz. 2010. “PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS”. Education Sciences 5 (4): 1628-42. https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB.

EndNote

Yazgan Y (May 1, 2010) PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS. Education Sciences 5 4 1628–1642.

IEEE

[1]Y. Yazgan, “PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS”, Education Sciences, vol. 5, no. 4, pp. 1628–1642, May 2010, [Online]. Available: https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB

ISNAD

Yazgan, Yeliz. “PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS”. Education Sciences 5/4 (May 1, 2010): 1628-1642. https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB.

JAMA

1.Yazgan Y. PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS. Education Sciences. 2010;5:1628–1642.

MLA

Yazgan, Yeliz. “PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS”. Education Sciences, vol. 5, no. 4, May 2010, pp. 1628-42, https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB.

Vancouver

1.Yeliz Yazgan. PARTITIONING STRATEGIES OF FOURTH AND FIFTH GRADE STUDENTS. Education Sciences [Internet]. 2010 May 1;5(4):1628-42. Available from: https://izlik.org/JA47BM58BB