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Ozgur, Zekiye; Reiten, Lindsay; Ellis, Amy B. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
Supporting students' mathematical reasoning is an important goal of mathematics instruction, but can be challenging for many teachers .We report the results of a study aimed at better understanding and identifying the ways in which teachers support student reasoning when provided with conceptually rich tasks. This study resulted in the Teacher…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Activities, Educational Practices
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Ellis, Amy B.; Ozgur, Zekiye; Kulow, Torrey; Dogan, Muhammed F.; Amidon, Joel – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2016
This article presents an Exponential Growth Learning Trajectory (EGLT), a trajectory identifying and characterizing middle grade students' initial and developing understanding of exponential growth as a result of an instructional emphasis on covariation. The EGLT explicates students' thinking and learning over time in relation to a set of tasks…
Descriptors: Numbers, Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students