Mathematical fluency at high school studentsстатья
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Аннотация:This article presents the results of a study of mathematical fluency in high school stu-dents. We provide a definition of mathematical fluency and illustrate the relevance of the
research by presenting an overview of studies examining mathematical fluency develop-ment and its relationship with success in mathematical disciplines.
A computerized test “Problem Verification Task” (Tosto et al., 2013) was adminis-tered to 692 high school stu dents from one public secondary school (grades 9/10/11: n =
336/210/146) in the Moscow region. The stimuli consisted of 48 elementary arithmetic
equations along with answer options. To indicate a correct answer, participants were in-structed to press the corresponding key on the keyboard as quickly as possible.
Two-way ANOVA was used to estimate grade and sex similarities and differences in
mathematical fluency at the high school level.
The current study has two primary findings: (1) students differed in math fluency
across grades, and (2) there were no sex differences in mathematical fluency at the high
school level. ANOVA exhibited significant differences in mathematical fluency among
all three groups of students at grades 9, 10 and 11 with a 19% effect size. These results
may be associated with the accumulating effects of the educational process: high school
students in each subsequent year of schooling demonstrate a higher level of mathemati-cal fluency on average compared to the previous year. At the same time, we observed no
sex differences in mathematical fluency at the high school level. The results are discussed
in terms of educational effects