Sentence examples for mathematical items from inspiring English sources

Priest (2013) points out that inconsistent mathematics adds further to this mix, and indeed adds mathematical items which individually have inconsistent properties.

One mathematical item is an approximation of another one if it is close to it in some relevant sense.

Only 18.8% of the mathematics items in PISA involve mathematical formulas.

More than two-thirds of the PISA mathematics items are independent of both mathematical results (theorems) and formulas.

In PISA 2012, only 11.8% of the mathematics items are found to be such that some mathematical theorem which the student can typically be assumed to know about, is helping the student in solving the item.

For TIMSS Advanced mathematics item dependence on mathematical theorems, we obtain a result which seems to form an interesting exception to the general pattern described above.

The pre-survey included four simple arithmetic problems (measured by speed of completion), the mathematical beliefs items from the Mathematical Problem-Solving Behaviors Scale (MPSB; Schommer-Aikins et al. 2005), and the Dweck scale for incremental and entity beliefs about intelligence (Blackwell et al. 2007).

Reasoning was measured using the Alice Heim 4-I test, which is composed of a series of 65 verbal and mathematical reasoning items of increasing difficulty.

The Alice Heim 4-I (AH4-I) is composed of a series of 65 verbal and mathematical reasoning items of increasing difficulty.

Like the writings of Nicomachus of Gerasa and Philo, as well as a relatively short list of medieval Muslim and Jewish authors, Sefer ha-Ehad follows the Pythagorean tradition of listing which natural, mathematical, and other items, come in two's, three's, etc.

We replicated the predictive power of the following features for item difficulty: cognitive requirement levels, relevance of mathematical requirements, and item formats (sketches).