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Volume 54, Issue 6

November 2022

Early Algebraic Thinking: A Multi-Dimensional and Ever-Expanding Global Vision

Issue Editor:

Carolyn Kieran

18 articles in this issue

The multi-dimensionality of early algebraic thinking: background, overarching dimensions, and new directions
Carolyn Kieran
Survey Paper 28 September 2022 Pages: 1131 - 1150
Introducing equations in early algebra
Luis Radford
Original Paper 06 September 2022 Pages: 1151 - 1167
Fifth graders’ learning to solve equations: the impact of early arithmetic strategies
Shengying Xie
Jinfa Cai
Original Paper 12 August 2022 Pages: 1169 - 1179
The role of variables in relational thinking: an interview study with kindergarten and primary school children
Denise Lenz
Original Paper Open access 25 August 2022 Pages: 1181 - 1197
Is a substitute the same? Learning from lessons centering different relational conceptions of the equal sign
Andrea Marquardt Donovan
Ana Stephens
Percival G. Matthews
Original Paper 28 July 2022 Pages: 1199 - 1213
Coordinating invisible and visible sameness within equivalence transformations of numerical equalities by 10- to 12-year-olds in their movement from computational to structural approaches
Carolyn Kieran
Cesar Martínez-Hernández
Original Paper 09 April 2022 Pages: 1215 - 1227
Developing algebraic activity through conjecturing about relationships
Alf Coles
Aehee Ahn
Original Paper Open access 20 September 2022 Pages: 1229 - 1241
The role of algebraic thinking in dealing with negative numbers
Joëlle Vlassis
Isabelle Demonty
Original Paper Open access 28 September 2022 Pages: 1243 - 1255
Algebraic reasoning in years 5 and 6: classifying its emergence and progression using reverse fraction tasks
Catherine Pearn
Max Stephens
Robyn Pierce
Original Paper Open access 02 September 2022 Pages: 1257 - 1271
Variables in early algebra: exploring didactic potentials in programming activities
C. Kilhamn
K. Bråting
J. Mason
Original Paper Open access 08 June 2022 Pages: 1273 - 1288
The centrality of student-generated representation in investigating generalizations about the operations
Deborah Schifter
Susan Jo Russell
Original Paper Open access 03 June 2022 Pages: 1289 - 1302
Seeds of algebraic thinking: a Knowledge in Pieces perspective on the development of algebraic thinking
Mariana Levin
Janet Walkoe
Original Paper Open access 02 June 2022 Pages: 1303 - 1314
Design of a pattern and correspondence unit to foster functional thinking in an elementary mathematics textbook
JeongSuk Pang
Jin Sunwoo
Original Paper 08 August 2022 Pages: 1315 - 1331
Generalisation in students with autism spectrum disorder: an exploratory study of strategies
J. Goñi-Cervera
M. C. Cañadas
I. Polo-Blanco
Original Paper Open access 09 September 2022 Pages: 1333 - 1347
The use of cultural contexts for patterning tasks: supporting young diverse students to identify structures and generalise
Jodie Hunter
Jodie Miller
Original Paper Open access 08 June 2022 Pages: 1349 - 1362
Starting points: understanding children’s pre-instructional intuitions about function tables
Ulises Xolocotzin
Ana M. Medrano-Moya
Teresa Rojano
Original Paper 26 August 2022 Pages: 1363 - 1376
Fourth graders’ expression of the general case
Cristina Ayala-Altamirano
Marta Molina
Rebecca Ambrose
Original Paper 17 July 2022 Pages: 1377 - 1392
Structures and representations used by 6th graders when working with quadratic functions
Rafael Ramírez
María C. Cañadas
Alba Damián
Original Paper Open access 29 September 2022 Pages: 1393 - 1406