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George W. Bush Institute, Education Reform Initiative, 2017
Success in math is important to all students; it provides them with college and career options in the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. In the middle grades, students build upon the critical skills taught in elementary school and prepare for entry into algebra, which is considered a gateway to later achievement in school…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Middle School Students, Mathematics Skills
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Laborde, Colette – For the Learning of Mathematics, 1989
Describes some topics of French research: relationships between teaching and learning, choices and constraints of the didactic system, role of the computer, and forms of the functioning knowledge. (YP)
Descriptors: Computer Uses in Education, Computers, Concept Formation, Elementary School Mathematics
Peck, Donald M.; Connell, Michael L. – 1991
Elementary school teacher candidates typically enter their professional training with deficiencies in their conceptual understanding of the topics of elementary school mathematics and with a reliance upon procedural (algorithmic) approaches to the solutions of mathematical problems. If elementary school teacher candidates are expected to teach…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, College Mathematics