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• Conversion between different symbolic representations of rational numbers among 9th-grade students

  29-45

  Gábor Torma

  József Kosztolányi

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  73

  Our research involved nearly 800 ninth-grade secondary school students (aged 14-15) during the first weeks of the 2023/2024 school year. Less than 40% of students solved the text problems related to common fractions and percentages correctly. In terms of student solutions, pupils showed a higher success rate when the text of the problem contained common fractions, and the solution had to be given as a percentage. In this case, the success rate of switching between different symbolic representations of rational numbers (common fraction, percentage) was also higher. Observation of the methods used to solve also suggests that the majority of students are not flexible enough when it comes to switching between different representations.

  Subject Classification: 97F80, 97D70

• Experiences in the education of mathematics during the digital curriculum from the perspective of high school students

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  József Kosztolányi

  Gábor Torma

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  234

  Due to the COVID-19 epidemic, Hungarian schools had to switch to a digital curriculum for an extended period between 2019 and 2021. In this article, we report on the experiences regarding the education of mathematics during the digital curriculum in the light of the reinstated on-site education, all through the eyes of high school students. Distance education brought pedagogical renewal to the lives of many groups. Students were asked about the positives and negatives of this situation.

  Subject Classification: 97C90