Elizabeth Warren

TL;DR: In this article, a teaching experiment was conducted with two classes of students with an average age of eight years and six months and the results showed that young students are capable not only of thinking about the relationship between two data sets, but also of expressing this relationship in a very abstract form.

TL;DR: The concept of variable is fundamental to success with algebra Introducing the Variable through Pattern Exploration Variables are the basic tool for expressing gen eralizations as discussed by the authors, yet this concept is more sophisticated than we realize and is often the stum bling block in students' algebraic development.

TL;DR: This paper investigated students' understanding of associative law, commutative law and addition and division as general processes after they have completed their primary school education and found that these understandings are believed to assist successful transition from arithmetic to algebra.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined primary teachers' beliefs on teaching, learning and assessing mathematics and found that female teachers scored more highly than male teachers on using assessment to inform the teacher and the learners.

TL;DR: This paper found that young children are capable of not only thinking about the relationship between two data sets, but also of expressing this relationship in a very abstract form using algebraic expressions, which is a common approach used for introducing algebra to young adolescents.