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Robert Richardson – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Area should be experienced, not simply calculated. This task invites students to physically experience areas and the spatial relationships between them, as well as their own community.
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Spatial Ability, Experiential Learning, Physical Environment
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Gholami, Hosseinali – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2022
Practical problem solving is not common in many mathematical classes in Malaysian upper secondary schools. Usually, students receive the mathematical concepts through abstract materials (students cannot see some of them in their daily life). Thus some students believe that 'mathematics is not necessary for human life'. In this article, the…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Building Design, Problem Solving
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Daniels, Harry; Tse, Hau Ming; Ortega Ferrand, Lorena; Stables, Andrew; Cox, Sarah – British Journal of Sociology of Education, 2019
This article is concerned with the influences that are brought to bear on the design of school buildings and the effects that the design of these buildings have on those who teach and learn in them. The article also focuses on the ways in which design is altered in and through the practices of these occupants. We argue that there is a mutual…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Building Design, Teaching Methods, Sociocultural Patterns
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Ramey, Kay E.; Stevens, Reed; Uttal, David H. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2020
This study examines the role of spatial reasoning in learning among 5th and 6th grade students participating in a set of in-school, technology-enhanced, STEAM (science, technology, engineering, arts, and math) making activities. We focus our analysis on a particular type of reasoning: spatial reasoning. Prior research has shown that spatial…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Art Education, Spatial Ability, Problem Solving
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Fahrurozi, Achmad; Maesaroh, Suci; Suwanto, Imam; Nursyahidah, Farida – Journal of Research and Advances in Mathematics Education, 2018
This research aims to produce a Learning Trajectory Based Instruction (LTBI) that can help the ninth grade students understand the concept of congruence of the two-dimensional shape by examining Lawang Sewu as one of Central Java historical buildings. LTBI is defined as a teaching and learning trajectory that uses Hypothetical Learning Trajectory…
Descriptors: Advanced Students, Learning Processes, Teaching Methods, Building Design
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Jones, Jennifer – Childhood Education, 2020
In this article, Jennifer Jones describes how at Pine Street School in New York City, they have dispensed with the traditional industrial model of schooling and are looking ahead to the future. The entire school was designed with optional learning environments. Jones describes innovative elements from varied seating (floor cushions, modular…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Attitudes, Teacher Student Relationship, Futures (of Society)
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Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín; Hjartarson, Torfi – Improving Schools, 2016
The physical environment in schools has in the literature of late been gaining recognition as a potential factor supporting educational change. This article draws a single case out of a research sample of 20 schools in Iceland to relate an inventive design process as the school was being developed and study the current state of established school…
Descriptors: School Buildings, Physical Environment, Educational Change, Building Design
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Shealer, Ron; Shealer, Michelle – Technology and Engineering Teacher, 2014
This article describes a cooperative project between eighth graders and first graders called "Going Green in the Neighborhood." The project entailed the first grade students sketching home designs on paper to make a model community, and the eighth grade students taking those drawings and making them into 3D computer models and then…
Descriptors: Design, Class Activities, Cooperative Learning, Grade 1
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Leiringer, Roine; Cardellino, Paula – British Educational Research Journal, 2011
The Building Schools for the Future programme has been established to ensure that English secondary schools are designed or redesigned to allow for educational transformation. The programme represents the biggest single UK government investment in school buildings for over 50 years. For this reason, it poses a major challenge to those involved in…
Descriptors: Educational Facilities Design, Building Design, Foreign Countries, School Buildings
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Mulcahy, Dianne – Journal of Education Policy, 2016
This article seeks to augment an emerging interest in education policy research in enactment theorising, to explicitly consider the role and contribution of materiality in this theorising. Guided by the notion of policy "matters," the article takes as its empirical context a major policy initiative, the Building the Education Revolution…
Descriptors: Educational Policy, Role, Educational Research, Policy Analysis
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Sigurðardóttir, Anna Kristín; Hjartarson, Torfi – Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, 2011
The aim of this study is to identify features of change in the recent design of school buildings in Iceland, and how they might affect teaching practices. Environmental and architectonic features characterising school buildings designed and built at the beginning of the 21st century are examined in light of challenges involving architecture,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, School Buildings, Change, Building Design