Cultural Symbols Didactize Concreteness Fading in Basic Multiplication
Clement Ayarebilla Ali
Abstract:The purpose of this study is to use cultural Adinkra artifacts to present “Concreteness Fading” in the basic multiplication of one-digit and one-digit numbers. Employing a quantitative approach, the researcher adopted a one-group pretest-posttest quasi-experimental design, and randomly selected 51 participants from 300 student teachers. Data collection involved two sets of tests, analyzed in two stages through task-based transcripts and paired-sample t-tests. The first stage analyzed the tasks the student teac… Show more
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