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Peer reviewedWardrop, Heather – Australian Mathematics Teacher, 1993
Describes an action research project using Language for Understanding across the Curriculum to help year-seven students in a mathematics problem-solving unit. Strategies included unpacking the question, modeling the writing process, learning journals, glossaries, classroom charts, and the Newman Questioning Technique. Ability to explain…
Descriptors: Action Research, Content Area Writing, Grade 7, Language Impairments
Peer reviewedWadlington, Elizabeth; And Others – Arithmetic Teacher, 1992
Presents a three-phase process that connects writing and cooperative problem solving to each other and to mathematical skills and concepts. The three phases are: (1) writing to communicate mathematics; (2) cooperative learning; and (3) problem solving. Provides examples illustrating each phase. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Cooperative Learning, Elementary Education
Peer reviewedShannon, Kathleen M.; Curtin, Elizabeth – Primus, 1992
Presents an alternate form of assignment, called "Special Problems," that incorporates writing in journals into the mathematics classroom. The method requires students to provide process narratives to accompany selected homework exercises. Allows the teacher to monitor the student's thought processes and development. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Style, Discovery Processes, Higher Education
Peer reviewedMacKinnon, Marjorie M. – New Directions for Teaching and Learning, 1999
Reports a study of motivation among 36 University of Hong Kong first-year students during their first exposure to problem-based learning, with data drawn from student journals, pre- and post-semester measures of learning-style preference, and course evaluations. Results indicate significant changes in learning-style preference, from…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Freshmen, College Instruction, College Students
Peer reviewedCarey, Deborah A. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1992
Discusses how children's literature can be used as a context to develop problem-solving tasks. Illustrates this idea by developing tasks to teach concepts related to multiplication through the context of "The Patchwork Quilt," a children's book by Valerie Flournoy. Suggests activity extensions to determine unit sizes, draw scale models,…
Descriptors: Area, Childrens Literature, Context Effect, Division
Yoong, Wong Khoon – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 1992
This paper describes (1) the role of reflection in learning and teaching as presented at a Philippines-Australia Science and Mathematics Education Project training program; (2) the use of writing as a tool for reflection; and (3) examples of teacher reactions to the training on reflection. (25 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Educational Change, Foreign Countries, Inservice Teacher Education
Download full textPagni, David, Ed. – 1991
The National Science Foundation funded Calculators and Mathematics Project, Los Angeles (CAMP-LA) developed curriculum materials focused solely on the use of calculators. The project was developed in three stages. The first stage studied the mathematics curriculums from different states and identified topics that are not included but should be if…
Descriptors: Addition, Algebra, Arithmetic, Calculators
