Students’ awareness of their cognitive processes facilitates the learning of maths
The purpose of education is to ensure that students acquire the skills necessary for succeeding in a world that is constantly changing. Self-assessment, or teaching students how to examine and evaluate their own learning and cognitive processes, has proven to be an effective method, and this competence is partly based on metacognitive knowledge. A new study conducted at the University of Eastern Finland shows that metacognitive knowledge, i.e., awareness of one’s cognitive processes, is also a key factor in the learning of mathematics. The study explored thinking skills and possible
