ERIC Number: EJ1475437
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2025
Pages: 19
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Expansively Framing Mathematics and Computer Science Teaching with Digital Technology in Elementary Classrooms
International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, v13 n4 p812-829 2025
Expansive Framing (EF) is a theory and an instructional technique to facilitate connections between content and contexts. We employed EF as an approach to create a series of integrated mathematics and computer science (CS) lessons, using digital technology as a tool to leverage shared mathematical and computational ideas. We used deductive theoretical qualitative analysis of transcripts of classroom implementations to investigate how two fifth-grade teachers and one computer lab paraprofessional educator used EF during their teaching and what the EF approach looked like in practice. Findings suggested that educators engaged in EF principles when they were present in curricular materials, yet they also made additional impromptu (albeit school-based) expansive connections. The teachers in the study also regularly framed students as authors and owners of new knowledge. We recommend that mathematics-CS integrated curricular materials include language and other supports that make unambiguous, specific connections across learning contexts. We posit that EF theory can be a support to educators in the integration of mathematics and coding instruction with digital technology.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Computer Science Education, Grade 5, Elementary School Teachers, Paraprofessional Personnel, Computer Centers, Teaching Methods, Transcripts (Written Records), Coding, Information Technology, Interdisciplinary Approach, Computer Software, Rural Schools, School Districts, Lesson Plans, Faculty Development
International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology. Necmettin Erbakan University, Ahmet Kelesoglu Education Faculty, Meram, Konya, 42090, Turkey. e-mail: ijermst@gmail.com; Web site: https://www.ijemst.net/index.php/ijemst/index
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Grade 5; Intermediate Grades; Middle Schools
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Language: English
Sponsor: National Science Foundation (NSF)
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Grant or Contract Numbers: 2031382; 2031404
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