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Examining How Middle Grade Mathematics Students Seize Learning Opportunities through Conflict in Small Groups
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Campbell, Tye – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2023
Understanding how students develop learning opportunities through peer-to-peer interaction is vital for advancing research and practice on collaborative learning environments. This study investigated the discourse practices middle grade students utilized to resolve conflict in ways that promoted or inhibited learning opportunities. Seventy-seven…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Peer Relationship
Maintaining Coherence across Research and Practice: A Common Framework for Describing Teachers' Reacting Moves
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Milewski, Amanda Marie; Strickland, Sharon Kay; Humphreys, Cathy – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2016
A teacher's reactions to students' mathematical contributions have critical implications for shaping both teaching and learning. We present a framework for describing reacting moves that resulted from a comparative analysis between two existing frameworks; one developed by secondary teachers for parsing instructional practice and the other…
Descriptors: Teacher Response, Mathematics Teachers, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Research for Educational Change: Transforming Researchers' Insights into Improvement in Mathematics Teaching and Learning. Routledge Research in Education
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Adler, Jill, Ed.; Sfard, Anna, Ed. – Routledge Research in Education, 2016
"Research for Educational Change" presents ways in which educational research can fulfil its commitments to educational practice. Focussing its discussion within the context of mathematics education, it argues that while research-generated insights can have beneficial effects on learning and teaching, the question of how these effects…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Educational Research, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction
Promoting Mathematical Discourse: Learning from Classroom Examples.
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Manouchehri, Azita; Enderson, Mary C. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Recommends that mathematics instruction should promote student discourse by orchestrating situations in which each individual's thinking is challenged and asking students to clarify and justify ideas. Provides a vignette of a heterogeneously grouped seventh-grade mathematics class to illustrate the process of mathematical discourse. (ASK)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Discourse Analysis, Discussion (Teaching Technique), Grade 7
Use of Informal Language when Introducing Concepts.
Ashlock, Robert B. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1987
Focuses on the language used by elementary mathematics teachers and its relationship to students' understanding of mathematical concepts, as well as their misconceptions. Describes eight situations in which the use of precise, formal mathematical terms could be replaced by informal language, particularly when introducing new concepts. (TW)
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Cognitive Structures, Discourse Analysis, Elementary Education
From 1 to Z: Integrating Math and Language Learning.
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Kang, Hee-Won; Pham, Kien T. – 1995
Techniques for integrating English-as-a-Second-Language (ESL) instruction and mathematics instruction, particularly the language of mathematics, are discussed. Focus here is on mathematics instruction for limited-English-speaking students in the mainstream classroom. First, examples of the academic language of mathematics that students must…
Descriptors: Classroom Communication, Classroom Environment, Classroom Techniques, Concept Formation