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Hourigan, Mairéad; Leavy, Aisling – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2022
This paper explores Year 3 Irish students' problem-solving strategies when responding to a skyscraper growing pattern problem. Students' strategies reveal their understandings of multiplicative thinking, pattern, and algebraic reasoning. The version of the growing pattern lesson was that a 'teaching through problem solving' approach was taken,…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Thinking Skills, Algebra, Mathematics Education
Moffett, Pamela – Mathematics Teaching, 2010
The recently revised "Northern Ireland Primary Curriculum" recommends that teachers make use of the environment to extend children's understanding of mathematics. One approach to using the environment in mathematics is to take children on a mathematics trail. A mathematics trail uses the resources and features within the environment as a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Playgrounds, Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics)