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Fry, Kym; English, Lyn; Makar, Katie – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2022
The intangible concept of data, as part of statistical literacy, can be complex for young children to grasp. Inquiry as a pedagogy has potential for supporting student development of statistical literacy as the investigation process is driven by the inquiry question. The aim of this paper is to gain insight into how a teacher's communication…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Classroom Communication, Prompting, Data
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Kym Fry; Lyn English; Katie Makar – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
The teaching and learning of statistical thinking begins at a young age in Australia, with a focus on data representation and interpretation from Foundation Year (age 5), and the collection, sorting and categorising of items from the natural environment starting even earlier. The intangible concept of "data," as part of statistical…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Foreign Countries, Student Attitudes, Grade 4
Oslington, Gabrielle Ruth; Mulligan, Joanne; Van Bergen, Penny – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
This longitudinal study aimed to determine changes in students' predictive reasoning across one year. Forty-four Australian students predicted future temperatures from a table of maximum monthly temperatures, explained their predictive strategies, and represented the data at two time points: Grade 3 and 4. Responses were analysed using a…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Thinking Skills, Prediction, Grade 3
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Hopkins, Sarah; Russo, James; Siegler, Robert – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2022
There is a growing awareness that many children are not developing fast and accurate retrieval-based strategies for solving single-digit addition problems. In this study we individually assessed 166 third and fourth grade children to identify a group of children (called accurate-min-counters) who frequently solved simple single-digit addition…
Descriptors: Addition, Grade 3, Grade 4, Elementary School Students
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Jimenez, Bree A.; Croft, Gemma; Twine, Jennifer; Gorey, Jacqueline – Journal of Special Education, 2021
The "Next Generation Science Standards" framework outlines scientific and engineering practices as a key element of student development. Educators are just beginning to discover effective and meaningful ways to teach science content to students with intellectual disability; however, the literature on teaching science practices is still…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Problem Solving, Intellectual Disability, Students with Disabilities
Sampson, Demetrios G., Ed.; Spector, J. Michael, Ed.; Ifenthaler, Dirk, Ed.; Isaias, Pedro, Ed. – International Association for Development of the Information Society, 2014
These proceedings contain the papers of the 11th International Conference on Cognition and Exploratory Learning in the Digital Age (CELDA 2014), October 25-27, 2014, which has been organized by the International Association for Development of the Information Society (IADIS) and endorsed by the Japanese Society for Information and Systems in…
Descriptors: Conference Papers, Teaching Methods, Technological Literacy, Technology Uses in Education