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Direct linkLivy, Sharyn; Hamilton, Scott; Downton, Ann – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2022
The purpose of this article is to report how Year 6 teachers used geometric reasoning tasks to foster students' mathematical attitudes and dispositions by encouraging communication as students constructed mathematical meaning for themselves. The Year 6 teachers implemented two tasks to provide a rich mathematical assessment opportunity…
Descriptors: Evidence Based Practice, Evaluation Methods, Problem Solving, Grade 5
Download full textDownton, Ann; Wright, Vince – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
This study explored the potential of a rich assessment task to reveal students' multiplicative thinking in respect to a hypothetical learning trajectory. Thirty pairs of students in grades 5 and 6 attempted the task. Twenty-two pairs applied multiplicative structure to find the number of items in arrays. However counting and computational errors…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Task Analysis, Grade 5, Grade 6
