How middle-grade students explain ordering statements within real life situation? An example of temperature context

Aysenur Yilmaz (1) , Mine Isiksal-Bostan (1)

1 Middle East Technical University, Faculty of Education, Ankara, Turkey

The purpose of the study is to examine the extent to which middle-grade students agree on statements about the ordering of two negative integers given within a real-life context, and what kind of procedural and conceptual strategies they generate to order those numbers. Data is collected through a questionnaire including two statements about ordering integers from fifty-seven middle-grade level students in a public school. The results show that even though students agreed with both of the statements, they did not explain the concept of ordering in daily life with regard to conceptual meanings and that they have problems in their procedural knowledge repertoire.

Keywords: Integers; contextual problems; negativity

Domains: Mathematics [math]; Humanities and Social Sciences

Aysenur Yilmaz, Mine Isiksal-Bostan. How middle-grade students explain ordering statements within real life situation? An example of temperature context. CERME 10, Feb 2017, Dublin, Ireland. ⟨hal-01873454⟩