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Cady, Jo Ann; Hodges, Thomas E.; Brown, Clara Lee – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
English Language Learners (ELLs) have an increasing presence in the nations' classrooms. From 1991 to 2004 the number of ELLs nearly doubled in grades K-12. Furthermore, new forms of accountability have school personnel concerned with the progress--or lack of progress--of the ELLs. "Principles and Standards" also reflects this concern: The Equity…
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Elementary School Mathematics, Algebra, Second Language Learning
Abrahamson, Dor – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
The paper describes the rationale and 10-day implementation in a 5th-grade classroom (n=19) of an experimental ratio-and-proportion instructional design. In this constructivist-phenomenological design, coming from our theoretical perspective, design research, and domain analysis, students: (1) link "real-world" and "mathematical" objects…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Instructional Design, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction