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Lewis, Wendy M.; Colonnese, Madelyn W. – Gifted Child Today, 2021
The National Association for Gifted Children and The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics both call for problem posing. This article illustrates the strategies used during a series of three Three-Act Tasks to foster second grade students' abilities to problem pose. The students' problem posing improved across the three Three-Act Tasks and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Activities, Problem Solving, Academically Gifted, Grade 2
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Ahn, Junghyun; Sung, Woonhee; Black, John B. – Journal of Research in Childhood Education, 2022
Despite increased interest in integrating programming education into K-12 programs, there is a lack of studies on teaching debugging to younger age groups. Therefore, this study proposes practical design components for designing unplugged debugging tasks that affect young learners' debugging performance, problem-solving, and self-efficacy,…
Descriptors: Programming, Computer Science Education, Learning Activities, Elementary School Students
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Swanson, H. Lee; Kong, Jennifer; Li, Jui-Teng; Petcu, Stefania D. – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
This exploratory study determined the relationship between math instructional activities in Wave (year) 1 and English language learner (ELL) children's math problem-solving performance in Wave (year) 2. The math performance of ELL children (N = 291) in Grades 1, 2, and 3 was tested in two testing waves. Two major findings emerged. First, strategy…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, English Language Learners, Mathematics Achievement, Problem Solving
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Sayin, Volkan; Sahin, Ömer – Educational Research Quarterly, 2021
This research aimed to examine whether the activities related to mental computation strategies had any effect on the development of the second-grade elementary school students' problem-solving (PS) skills. Participants of the study are comprised of 14 children aged 7-8 years and enrolled in the second grade of the elementary school of a village.…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving, Mental Computation
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Anderson, Andrea Earline; Meier, Jessica A. – Journal of STEM Arts, Crafts, and Constructions, 2018
The integration of art into curricula focused on teaching science is a new perspective in education designed to reach a broader range of students. The current study examined the process of second-grade students participating in science and art activities through qualitative content analysis. The subjects of science and art were not taught to the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Primary Education, Grade 2, Civil Engineering
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Mendez, James; Baird, Kate; Patino, Greicy – Science and Children, 2019
Picture this: a PhD chemist, PhD science educator, and a preservice Latina elementary educator walk into an aftercare program for primary and intermediate students from a rural school. These students are identified as low income and at risk and therefore eligible to participate in this school-provided aftercare. While across the state, these same…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, After School Programs, Low Income Students, At Risk Students
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Wang, Min; Walkington, Candace; Rouse, Amy – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2022
The purpose of this meta-analysis is to examine the effect of problem-posing on students' mathematical academic outcomes, including problem-solving skills, problem-posing skills, mathematical dispositions, and mathematics achievement. Twenty-one studies that were published between 1990 and 2019 with problem-posing as the intervention were included…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Achievement, Intervention
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Albarracín, Lluís – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study presents a teaching experiment in which second-grade primary school students compared a city and a town according to population estimates. The activities were presented to them as Fermi problems and required an analysis of the reality to identify sub-problems that students could deal with. The students' products were analyzed from the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models
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Passarella, Simone – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
Introducing the distributivity property of multiplication over addition is a well-known challenge in mathematics education, especially in primary school. As a contribution, this paper presents the results of a cycle of design research that focuses on the design, implementation and evaluation of a modelling activity in which 2nd-grade students are…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students, Mathematical Concepts
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Thornburgh, William; McFadden, Justin; Robinson, Brian – Science and Children, 2020
The "Next Generation Science Standards" ("NGSS") have placed an emphasis on the incorporation of engineering practices into K-12 science instruction. This article details a sequence of physical science lessons that would be part of teaching matter in the second-grade classroom. The goals of these lessons are: (1) to be hands-on…
Descriptors: Standards, Science Education, Engineering Education, Grade 2
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Masters, Heidi; Shrake, Tyler – Science and Children, 2019
When it snows, children are permitted to play outside during recess, which causes them to experience a variety of problems with their mittens or gloves. To align instruction with a problem student's experience in every day life, the authors developed and administered a short survey to second graders in an after school program. The authors found…
Descriptors: Science Instruction, Elementary School Science, Elementary School Students, Problem Solving
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Israel, Maya; Lash, Todd – Interactive Learning Environments, 2020
This paper presents findings from a two-year qualitative study examining integration of computer science (CS) and computational thinking (CT) into elementary mathematics instruction. Integrated units were developed by elementary teachers and CS/CT coaches with support from university faculty with expertise in CS/CT and elementary mathematics.…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Problem Solving, Computation, Mathematics Instruction
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McNeil, Nicole M.; Hornburg, Caroline Byrd; Brletic-Shipley, Heather; Matthews, Julia M. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2019
Elementary school children (ages 7-11) struggle to understand mathematical equivalence, a foundational prealgebraic concept. Some manipulations to the learning environment, including well-structured nontraditional arithmetic practice alone, have been shown to improve children's understanding; however, improvements have been modest. The goal of…
Descriptors: Children, Intervention, Arithmetic, Elementary School Students
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Kopparla, Mahati; Capraro, Mary Margaret – European Journal of STEM Education, 2018
Although some students might struggle with problem posing, the positive effects on student learning and abilities may be far reaching for those who engage in this activity. Problem posing requires students to create their own problems rather than to solve problems posed by others. Problem posing is not regularly taught; however, reform proponent…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Activities
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Baek, Youngkyun; Wang, Sasha; Yang, Dazhi; Ching, Yu-Hui; Swanson, Steve; Chittoori, Bhaskar – European Journal of STEM Education, 2019
This study, a sub-study of a National Science Foundation (NSF) funded research project, applies a modified strategy of the U[superscript 2]MC for an eight-week afterschool robotics curriculum to promote upper elementary students' computational thinking in the second grade. Twenty-one students in second grade participated in a Life on Mars project…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Robotics, Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science
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