IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/rfa/journl/v4y2016i1p18-27.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The Impact of Mathematical Writing on Students¡¯ Metacognition in Applied Algebra Test

Author

Listed:
  • Betsy Lee Guat Poh
  • Lim Chap Sam

Abstract

Students always use their pens and papers from time to time in their daily routine mathematics lesson to perform activities such as taking notes, performing calculation, doing mathematics assignments or examinations. However, students mainly use writing as a mechanism to demonstrate their computational skills rather than their conceptual thinking. Mathematical writing becomes a powerful learning tool only if it combines language and mathematical algorithm. Thus, this paper intends to explore the impact of mathematical writing on students¡¯ metacognition in an applied algebra test. It attempts to examine the metacognitive behavior of three foundation students in engineering and the qualitative data was the participants¡¯ take-home test after five weeks of mathematical writing intervention. This paper reports the analysis of these students¡¯ writing responses in the test. The findings revealed the quality of the students¡¯ metacognition abilities and their mathematical problem solving skills.

Suggested Citation

  • Betsy Lee Guat Poh & Lim Chap Sam, 2016. "The Impact of Mathematical Writing on Students¡¯ Metacognition in Applied Algebra Test," International Journal of Social Science Studies, Redfame publishing, vol. 4(1), pages 18-27, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:rfa:journl:v:4:y:2016:i:1:p:18-27
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1219/1193
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: http://redfame.com/journal/index.php/ijsss/article/view/1219
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    More about this item

    Keywords

    mathematical writing; metacognition; mathematical problem solving;
    All these keywords.

    JEL classification:

    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • Z0 - Other Special Topics - - General

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:rfa:journl:v:4:y:2016:i:1:p:18-27. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Redfame publishing (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/cepflch.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.