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Guler, Nilufer, Ed. – IGI Global, 2018
Teaching English language learners has long presented challenges for teachers tasked with bringing these students to a level of language comprehension comparable to that of native speakers. These challenges and issues can lead to difficulty comprehending core academic topics for those learning the English language. "Optimizing Elementary…
Descriptors: English Language Learners, Elementary School Students, Elementary Education, English (Second Language)
Borasi, Raffaella – 1996
Significant instructional changes in mathematics will be achieved only if each educator involved with school mathematics engages in a personal rethinking of various aspects of mathematics instruction and identifies some concrete ways in which his or her current practice could be modified to reflect the results of such rethinking. This book is…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions

Bezuidenhout, Jan – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1998
Explores first-year students' understanding of fundamental calculus concepts using written tests and interviews. Analysis of the written and verbal responses to the test items revealed significant misconceptions on which students' mathematical activities were based. Describes some of those misconceptions and errors relating to students'…
Descriptors: Calculus, Higher Education, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Education

Moloney, Kevin; Stacey, Kaye – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1996
Demonstrates ways students think about decimals and how this changes as students get older. Presents a test teachers can use to help diagnose the mistakes students make. (MKR)
Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Educational Diagnosis, Identification, Mathematics Instruction

Campbell, Patricia F. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1997
When permitted, children frequently devise approaches to solving problems that are distinct from those typically used by adults. Presents examples of children's thinking from Project IMPACT which illustrate the crucial interplay between a teacher's instructional decisions and children's thinking while confronting mathematical misconceptions.…
Descriptors: Action Research, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions

Mitchelmore, Michael – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Considers teaching strategies to help children overcome misconceptions and difficulties with the mathematical concept of angles. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics Activities

Lee, J. Todd – Mathematics Teacher, 1999
One of the biggest hurdles in teaching statistics is convincing students that the area under curves has anything to do with all the samples, histograms, and various other indicators to which they have been exposed. Presents two examples to illustrate this phenomenon. (ASK)
Descriptors: Area, Graphs, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction

Driscoll, Mark – Mathematics Teacher, 1995
Discusses the integration of assessment into instruction using a four-step framework: planning the activity, gathering evidence, interpreting evidence, and using evidence. (MKR)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions

Galili, Igal; Goldberg, Fred – Physics Teacher, 1993
Expands upon the popular belief that mirrors cause the left-right reversal of objects placed in front of them. The image-location rule and image-symmetry rule are applied throughout the article to help summarize some important properties of mirror images. (ZWH)
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Optics, Physics

Curcio, Frances R. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Dispells five myths in mathematics education related to the standards and reform efforts. Contains 19 references. (ASK)
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Educational Change, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools

Jacobs, Victoria R. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Explores misconceptions that students hold about sampling techniques on surveys. Highlights students' thinking and instructional implications from two studies that examined upper-elementary students' written and oral explanations as they responded to survey situations. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction

Van Dyke, Frances; Craine, Timothy V. – Mathematics Teacher, 1997
Discusses how students fail to recognize the underlying equivalence when the same set of points is represented by a graph or an equation or a table. Presents activities in which more than one form of representations of the same information are included. (ASK)
Descriptors: Algebra, Class Activities, Functions (Mathematics), Mathematical Concepts

Oberdorf, Christine D.; Taylor-Cox, Jennifer – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1999
Identifies common misconceptions about polygons. Discusses current practices used to teach geometry to search for the source of misconceptions, and describes ways to help students avoid these misconceptions. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Activities

Ward, Robin A. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 1999
Presents an activity in which students must arrange five fractions represented by dominoes in ascending order and justify their reasons for the ordering. Representing common fractions with dominoes helps identify students' misconceptions about fractions. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Fractions, Manipulative Materials, Mathematics Activities

Toumasis, Charalampos – Mathematics Teacher, 1994
Examines correct and incorrect student-developed criteria for parallelograms. (MKR)
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions