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Zahra Pourazima; Vahid Borji; Hassan Alamolhodaei – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
The basic notions of combinatorics, including systematic listing and permutations, are important topics of mathematics that are recommended to be learned eventually from elementary schools. However, there is little research in mathematics education regarding elementary students' combinatorial strategies. The purpose of this research is to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Numbers
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Sung, Euisuk; Kelley, Todd R. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
With the increasing importance of teaching STEM to young students, the engineering design process (EDP) has become a popular learning platform in K-12 STEM education. The engineering design process guides students in solving engineering problems, but there is a lack of understanding of how students utilize this process. In this study, we explored…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Engineering, Design, STEM Education
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Ryo Okada – International Education Studies, 2025
This study focuses on the relationship between an autonomy-supportive classroom climate and changes in attitudes towards social participation in mixed-grade classes. The research field involved the learning activities conducted in a Japanese elementary school. Learning activities were carried out in mixed-grade classes, and the children engaged in…
Descriptors: Personal Autonomy, Educational Environment, Elementary School Students, Student Attitudes
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Hourigan, Mairéad; Leavy, Aisling – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2022
This paper explores Year 3 Irish students' problem-solving strategies when responding to a skyscraper growing pattern problem. Students' strategies reveal their understandings of multiplicative thinking, pattern, and algebraic reasoning. The version of the growing pattern lesson was that a 'teaching through problem solving' approach was taken,…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Thinking Skills, Algebra, Mathematics Education
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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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Soledad Estrella; Sergio Morales; Maritza Méndez-Reina; Pedro Vidal-Szabó; Alejandra Mondaca-Saavedra – International Journal for Lesson and Learning Studies, 2024
Purpose: This paper aims to describe the statistical arguments produced by third-grade students (8-9 years old) and to identify the teaching support for collective argumentation in a lesson based on data comparison. A Lesson Study Group researched and planned the lesson around a problem from the official mathematics textbook.…
Descriptors: Persuasive Discourse, Open Education, Electronic Learning, Thinking Skills
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Tejaswini Dalvi; Kristen Wendell – Science Education, 2024
An understanding of how sensemaking unfolds when elementary students engage in engineering design tasks is crucial to advancing engineering teaching and learning at K-12 levels. Sensemaking has been widely studied in the context of science as a discipline. In this paper, we seek to contribute to the more nascent efforts to build theory about the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Comprehension, Science Education
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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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Miranda S. Fitzgerald – Pedagogies: An International Journal, 2025
School pedagogies that expand opportunities for learners to build and use knowledge for meaningful purposes are resources for hope. Internationally, standards-based reforms in science education position schooling as a context for building and using disciplinary knowledge to explain phenomena and solve problems. There is also growing research…
Descriptors: Elementary School Science, Science Instruction, Content Area Reading, Expectation
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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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Tyminski, Andrew M.; Brittain, McKenzie – The Mathematics Educator, 2022
This paper presents research that exists at the crossroad of scholarly practice and scholarly inquiry. We outline the process in the design, enactment, and empirical examination of an elementary methods course activity, Exploring and Supporting Student Thinking (ESST), which engaged 18 elementary prospective teachers (PTs) in two sessions of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Methods Courses, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
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Bush, Sarah B.; Cook, Kristin L.; Edelen, Daniel; Cox, Richard, Jr. – Elementary School Journal, 2020
The inclusion of the arts into science, technology, engineering, the arts, and mathematics (STEAM) has recently gained much national attention. The purpose of this qualitative study was to conduct a thematic analysis of student STEAM survey open responses to provide the field with an examination of grades 3-5 elementary students' perceptions of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, STEM Education, Art Education, Grade 3
Lilly Alejandra Flores-Fiumara – ProQuest LLC, 2021
The U.S. is deficient in producing science, technology, engineering, and math (STEM) professionals. Competent problem solving is a desirable educational outcome pertinent to STEM education. Research has demonstrated the effectiveness of teaching task-specific problem-solving skills using behavior-analytic tactics. Learners have been taught to…
Descriptors: Verbal Communication, Problem Solving, Grade 3, Elementary School Students
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Bittman, Erin; Moomaw, Sally – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2017
Members of a third-grade class were involved in a heated discussion. They were using a fixed number of links to create fences for toy cows. The children could change the shape of the field produced by the links, but they could not add any links or take any away. Understanding the relationship between perimeter and area is a difficult concept for…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Integrated Activities
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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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