Table 5 Literature counts of each mathematical domain at different education levels
Education level | Content Domain (literature counts) | Sample topics and literature |
|---|---|---|
Early Childhood & Primary Education | Numbers & Algebra (10) | - Number concepts and counting (Muñoz et al., 2020; Shumway et al., 2021) - Arithmetic operation and number line estimation (Sung et al., 2017) - Prime and composite number (Cui & Ng, 2021; Ng & Cui, 2021) - Whole numbers and negative numbers (Sáez-López et al., 2019) - Number sequence (Cui & Ng, 2021; Ng & Cui, 2021) - The greatest common divisor and the least common multiple (Rodríguez-Martínez et al., 2020) - Measurement of distance (Dickes et al., 2020; Valovičová et al., 2020) - Approximation (Dickes et al., 2020) - The steepest descent algorithm (Araya, 2021) |
Geometry (9) | - Coordinates (Sáez-López et al., 2019) - Spatial location (Muñoz et al., 2020; Shumway et al., 2021) - Length and angle (Bouck & Yadav, 2020) - Geometric figures (Jurado et al., 2020; Nogueira et al., 2021) - Solid figures (Echeverria et al., 2019) - Structures of fractals (Wilkerson-Jerde, 2014) - Properties of squares (Miller, 2019) | |
Statistics & Probability (1) | - Data visualization: data ordering and manipulation; Creation and interpretation of graphics; Obtaining and interpreting information through data (Nogueira et al., 2021) | |
Secondary Education | Numbers & Algebra (4) | - Averaging, addition, and multiplication (Gilchrist et al., 2021) - Similarity, ratio, and measurement (Valovičová et al., 2020) - Parametric equations, functions, and trigonometry (Sinclair & Patterson, 2018) - Number sequence (Chan et al., 2021) |
Geometry (6) | - Properties of circles (Kaufmann & Stenseth, 2021) - Structures of fractals (Wilkerson-Jerde, 2014) - Shapes and area of triangles (Pei et al., 2018) - Segments and circles (Sinclair & Patterson, 2018) - Length and angle (Bouck & Yadav, 2020; Grizioti & Kynigos, 2021) | |
Statistics & Probability (2) | - Data practices: collect, create, manipulate, analyze, and visualize data related to infectious pathogens (Gilchrist et al., 2021) - Solve a mathematical–statistical problem (Psychairs & Kallia, 2017) | |
Calculus (0) | N/A |