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White, Dorothy Y. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2022
Every student has mathematical strengths beyond knowing basic facts, solving problems quickly, or showing work clearly. In this article, the author presents Smiles as an "on-ramp" task that supports students working together by unveiling and leveraging mathematical strengths. Nielsen describes on-ramp mathematics tasks as scaffolds that…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Cooperative Learning, Problem Solving, Puzzles
Hawera, Ngarewa; Taylor, Merilyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
In Maori medium schools, research that investigates children's mathematical computation with number and connections they might make to mathematical ideas in other strands is limited. This paper seeks to share ideas elicited in a task-based observation and interview with one child about the number ideas she utilises to solve a problem requiring…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Education, Computation, Probability