In this study, students’ learning has been investigated and satisfaction in one of the course offered at Qatar University Foundation Program. Innovative teaching has been implied methodology that emphasizes on enhancing students’ thinking skills, decision making, and problem solving skills. Some interesting results were found which could be used to further improvement of the teaching methodolog...

Writing and reading formulas or perceiving the graph of a function stand in the way of a blind student for an efficient and complete study of Math. We propose an architecture made by different components that allows to a blind user to face the study of the mathematics in total autonomy. The system allows the formula editing, and the formula exploration. In case of the formula represents a 2D fu...

The aim of the present study was to address how to effectively predict mathematics learning disability (MLD). Specifically, we addressed whether cognitive data obtained during kindergarten can effectively predict which children will have MLD in third grade, whether an abbreviated test battery could be as effective as a standard psychoeducational assessment at predicting MLD, and whether the abb...

The ability to accurately assess math problem solving strategy is an important part of understanding the effects of practice. Unfortunately the measures researchers trust are often unreliable and ill suited for studying the effects of practice. In the current study we are interested in identifying intermediary strategies that emerge as people switch from computational to retrieval strategies. T...

For improving the use of visual programming language many are the systems that have been built for the primary school users. Some applications are about science learning and some deals with Mathematics. This paper presents an educational environment developed by AgentSheets system, devoted to math learning for elementary students and it is a follow up of a computational system in which an auton...

raising the issue of the implications of findings in neuropsychological subjects for category learning [Knowlton, B. (1999) What can neuropsychology tell us about category learning? Trends Cognit. Sci. 3, 123–124]1. Knowlton and Squire2,3 reported various dissociations between categorization and recognition in normal and amnesic subjects to support their view that multiple memory systems mediat...

Given the considerable prevalence of math anxiety, it is important to identify the factors contributing to it in order to improve mathematical learning. Research on math anxiety typically focusses on the effects of more complex arithmetic skills. Recent evidence, however, suggests that deficits in basic numerical processing and spatial skills also constitute potential risk factors of math anxie...

Research suggests that teachers’ content and pedagogical knowledge and educational beliefs about teaching and learning are among the key factors for effective teaching. This study explores the extent to which K-12 Houston Independent School District (HISD) math teachers develop more adaptive educational beliefs about math teaching and knowledge and increase their mathematical knowledge for teac...

Two studies examined the social basis of self-assessment for learning through the application of creative computer tools that can help students assess and self-correct their own learning. Students are not usually inclined to check their own answers, but they find it relatively motivating to catch other people’s mistakes. A total of 62 students, ranging in age from nine to 11, participated in tw...