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Stephen L. Caviness; Crystal Wallen; Lorraine Stewart – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
These educators share the "how" and "why" behind their use of open middle tasks in the classroom. In this article, the authors share a type of mathematics task, called Open Middle, that exhibits the characteristics outlined above. The authors frequently use Open Middle tasks in their classrooms because they teach students that…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Computer Software, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Activities
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Ayse Tekin Dede; Esra Bukova Güzel – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2025
The aim of this study is to develop a descriptive framework for teacher educators to assist teachers to plan and realize modelling implementations in their classrooms and for researchers to describe and analyse how modelling is implemented. The planning process and implementations of 12 middle and high school mathematics teachers who conducted…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods
Margaret Marshman; Emily Ross; Anne Bennison; Merrilyn Goos – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
Curriculum change affords middle leaders opportunities for pedagogical and planning renewal. This paper reports case studies of two schools engaged in preparing for implementation of Version 9 of the Australian Curriculum: Mathematics. Drawing on interview data from a middle leader from each school, Bacchi's question, "What's the problem…
Descriptors: Educational Change, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Curriculum, National Curriculum
Amelia Auchstetter; Eben Witherspoon; Oluchi Ozuzu; Jonathan Margolin; Lawrence B. Friedman – American Institutes for Research, 2023
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the implementation and impact of the Pack program. The Pack was developed by the New York Hall of Science (NYSCI) and includes a digital game and set of curricular and professional development resources that aim to support computational thinking teaching and learning in middle school science and computer…
Descriptors: Computation, Thinking Skills, Educational Games, Program Implementation
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Weng, Xiaojing; Ng, Oi-Lam; Cui, Zhihao; Leung, Suzannie – Journal of Educational Computing Research, 2023
Creativity, one of the cornerstones of students' 21st-century skills, is regarded as an important learning outcome of science, technology, engineering, arts, and mathematics (STEAM) education. Meanwhile, problem-based digital making (DM), which combines the child-friendly programming activities of DM with problem-solving elements, is an emerging…
Descriptors: Creativity, Creative Development, 21st Century Skills, Problem Based Learning
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Mingyu Feng; Natalie Brezack; Chunwei Huang; Melissa Lee; Megan Schneider; Kelly Collins; Wynnie Chan – Society for Research on Educational Effectiveness, 2024
Background/Context: Math education remains a critical focus for national education improvement. As a solution, districts in the U.S. are investing in math education technologies. Research has demonstrated the potential of these technologies to close achievement gaps (e.g., Pape et al., 2012; Roschelle et al., 2016). Student math achievement is…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Solving, Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education
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Vural, Kübra; Konakli, Tugba – International Journal of Educational Reform, 2022
The purpose of this study is to examine teachers' social justice-based practices, the outcomes of those practices, the leadership roles revealed in the process, and the problems experienced. The sample of the study consisted of 13 teachers who were reached through the snowball sampling method. 10 middle school and 3 primary school teachers working…
Descriptors: Social Justice, Educational Practices, Leadership Role, Middle School Teachers
David Furjanic; Irin Mannan; Jillian C. Hamilton; Joseph F. T. Nese; Sean Austin; Sara Izzard; Rhonda N. T. Nese – Grantee Submission, 2021
Exclusionary disciplinary practices are utilized in schools despite limited benefits and associated negative student outcomes. Alternative strategies, such as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, reduce exclusionary discipline practices, though research is limited in secondary settings. This study examines how student and school staff…
Descriptors: Intervention, Discipline Policy, Skill Development, Outcomes of Education
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David Furjanic; Irin Mannan; Jillian C. Hamilton; Joseph F. T. Nese; Sean Austin; Sara Izzard; Rhonda N. T. Nese – Journal of Applied School Psychology, 2022
Exclusionary disciplinary practices are utilized in schools despite limited benefits and associated negative student outcomes. Alternative strategies, such as Positive Behavioral Interventions and Supports, reduce exclusionary discipline practices, though research is limited in secondary settings. This study examines how student and school staff…
Descriptors: Intervention, Discipline Policy, Skill Development, Outcomes of Education
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Peters, Susan A.; Gross, Michelle; Stokes-Levine, Amy – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2019
Statistics standards found in the Common Core (CCSSI 2010) and other state standards require considerable instructional time and focus for students to develop the depth and breadth of understanding necessary. In this article, the authors offer an approach to teaching a statistics unit that combines student choice with authentic and sustained…
Descriptors: Statistics, Active Learning, Student Projects, Student Interests
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Edwards, Clayton M.; Robichaux-Davis, Rebecca R.; Townsend, Brian E. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2019
Inquiry-based instruction is a student-centered approach to teaching that focuses on active learning (Barron and Darling-Hammond 2008) in which students engage with "tasks that promote reasoning and problem solving" (NCTM 2014). Specifically, such tasks encourage a variety of solution strategies and stimulate use of the NCTM Process…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers, Active Learning, Inquiry
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Leff, Stephen S.; Waasdorp, Tracy Evian; Paskewich, Brooke S.; Winston, Flaura K. – School Psychology Review, 2021
Peer bullying occurs frequently among middle school youth, negatively impacting students and the broader school climate. However, during these years there is a gap in translating empirically supported prevention science into school-based practices. This paper describes how the evidence-based Free2B bullying prevention multimedia assembly was…
Descriptors: Peer Relationship, Bullying, Prevention, Middle School Students
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Milman, Natalie B. – Journal of School Leadership, 2020
This qualitative case study examined school leaders' roles, perceptions, and challenges leading a one-to-one (1:1) laptop initiative in a coeducational, independent middle, and high school in the United States. The findings revealed how the school leaders led the school's 1:1 laptop initiative through collaborative, yet differentiated roles and…
Descriptors: School Administration, Principals, Laptop Computers, Technology Integration
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Sen, Ceylan; Güler, Gürsel – Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 2017
The study was conducted to reveal the effects of the instruction of different problem-solving strategies on the proportional reasoning skills of students in solving proportional problems in the 6th grade math's class. Quasi-experimental research model with pretest-posttest control group was employed in the study. For eight class hours, the…
Descriptors: Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies, Educational Strategies, Problem Solving
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Yau, King Woon; Mok, Ida Ah Chee – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2016
Students' seatwork plays an important part in their learning in their lessons, and very often, students record their private work in the notebooks during seatwork. The students' private work in their notebooks reflects students' learning and thinking, representing explicit learning outcomes. The students' private work in their notebooks of 14…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Independent Study, Demonstrations (Educational), Task Analysis
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