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Peer reviewedPowell, Beth – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 1996
Tells stories of children in their first year of school (mostly age five) who were using calculators for the first time. Implications are that children's thinking moves from a rough to a more thorough and refined grasp of the whole. Learning mathematics with calculators is more like the learning of language than traditional classroom mathematics.…
Descriptors: Active Learning, Calculators, Cooperative Learning, Discovery Processes
Peer reviewedCarroll, Michael – TESOL Journal, 1994
Focuses on student involvement in determining course structure through journal writing. Successful student writers become highly skilled at directing the course of their own learning. The data in the journals inform teachers about what is occurring in learners' heads. Reflective journal writers are adopting a professional approach to their…
Descriptors: Adult Students, Course Content, Course Organization, Creative Thinking
