Middle School Students' Understanding of Number Sense Related to Percent.
Middle School Students' Understanding of Number Sense Related to Percent.
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中学生对与百分比相关的数感的理解。
DOI:
10.1111/j.1949-8594.1997.tb17337.x
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发表时间:
1997
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
D. B. Aichele
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作者:
D. B. Aichele
This study examined middle school students' understanding of percent, focusing on number sense. Participants in the study were 106 seventh-grade and 93 eighth-grade students. Students were given a written test that included 21 multiple-choice questions and an open-ended item. Research interviews were conducted with 28 selected students. Students performed better interpreting a quantity expressed as a percent given a pictorial continuous region than when a pictorial discrete set of circles was given. Students had difficulty interpreting a quantity expressed as a percent of a number. The strategies used by students to make comparisons about percents represent a wide range of correct and incorrect approaches to the questions. In addition to the use of 50% and 100% as common reference points, students successfully applied fractional relationships, estimation and mental computation to make comparisons. A variety of inappropriate strategies which included computational procedures and numerical comparisons were also employed, some of which resulted in the correct multiple-choice response.