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Musti-Rao, Shobana; Telesman, Alana Oif – Journal of Behavioral Education, 2022
This study employed an alternating treatments design to compare the effects of two types of practice conditions on the subtraction fact fluency in a fifth-grade classroom. Eight, fifth-grade students participated in the study over a 5-week intervention period practicing addition and subtraction facts in a "fact families" condition (A +…
Descriptors: Subtraction, Mathematics Skills, Grade 5, Intervention
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Mudaly, Vimolan; Fletcher, Tamryn – Problems of Education in the 21st Century, 2019
There is concern about mathematics success and its related pedagogy. Society has seen rapid changes in the economy and technology with a call for these changes to be reflected within the classroom. New methods of teaching mathematics are being sought with the purpose to improve teaching and learning while making mathematics relatable to the new…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Educational Technology, Computer Oriented Programs
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Tucker, Stephen I.; Johnson, Teri Nicole – AERA Online Paper Repository, 2017
Interactions with technology have become a focus of education research, revealing specific constructs relevant to these interactions. Attributes of users and tools contribute to physically embodied interactions with technology and both users and tools modify attributes throughout these interactions. This study examines patterns of user-tool…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Handheld Devices, Telecommunications, Computer Oriented Programs
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Cooper, Linda; Dennis, Emily – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
More than 2,200 years ago, Eratosthenes, who was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, used a simple proportion involving the distance between two ancient cities and measures of shadows cast in those cities during a summer solstice to estimate the circumference of Earth (Nicastro 2008, 25-28). Today, middle school students can use…
Descriptors: Computation, Computer Oriented Programs, Telecommunications, Handheld Devices
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Bush, Sarah B.; Karp, Karen S.; Nadler, Jennifer; Gibbons, Katie – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2016
Having an answer to "When are we ever going to use this in real life?" is important to middle school mathematics teachers. The activity described in this article awakened sixth graders' understanding of how artists use mathematics. By exploring ratio and proportionality in different paintings, students realized the use of proportional…
Descriptors: Middle School Students, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Grade 6