TY - GEN
T1 - Strategy use in number line tasks of students with and without mathematical difficulties
T2 - 46th Annual Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, PME 2023
AU - Simon, Anna Lisa
AU - Asghari, Parviz
AU - Lilienthal, Achim J.
AU - Schindler, Maike
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2023, Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME). All rights reserved.
PY - 2023
Y1 - 2023
N2 - The number line (NL) is an important tool in mathematics education. Students with mathematical difficulties (MD) tend to have difficulties in NL tasks, as indicated by qualitative analyses of eye-tracking data. However, these qualitative analyses are laborious especially for large amounts of data. Our paper uses an innovate approach to facilitate the analysis of student strategies: AI is used to support the human researchers. We use student gaze heatmaps in combination with AI, in particular a clustering algorithm, to identify strategies of 140 fifth-grade students on the NL. Through AI-enhanced analysis, we found, first, a set of student NL strategies different from previous research. Second, we found that students with and without MD—at certain numbers—differed in strategy use, which was not found in this way before.
AB - The number line (NL) is an important tool in mathematics education. Students with mathematical difficulties (MD) tend to have difficulties in NL tasks, as indicated by qualitative analyses of eye-tracking data. However, these qualitative analyses are laborious especially for large amounts of data. Our paper uses an innovate approach to facilitate the analysis of student strategies: AI is used to support the human researchers. We use student gaze heatmaps in combination with AI, in particular a clustering algorithm, to identify strategies of 140 fifth-grade students on the NL. Through AI-enhanced analysis, we found, first, a set of student NL strategies different from previous research. Second, we found that students with and without MD—at certain numbers—differed in strategy use, which was not found in this way before.
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M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85180760451
SN - 9789659311248
T3 - Proceedings of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education
SP - 211
EP - 218
BT - Proceedings of the 46th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
A2 - Ayalon, Michal
A2 - Koichu, Boris
A2 - Leikin, Roza
A2 - Rubel, Laurie
A2 - Tabach, Michal
PB - Psychology of Mathematics Education (PME)
Y2 - 16 July 2022 through 21 July 2022
ER -