An eight-step teaching guide to help elementary students become familiar with electronic calculators. (Author/SJL)

The article looks at primitive counting techniques and suggests a systematic set of diagnostic activities for teaching young learning disabled children to count. (SBH)

The author points out the usefulness of the ALP minicalculator program with learning disabled learners and introduces a novel aspect of the program--a new method of dealing with fractions via the calculator in which decimal answers are converted to equivalent fractions. (SBH)

Relates Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) with anecdotes of learning-disabled students in primary grades. Message of CGI is that when teachers begin listening to children, they realize how much more students know than they recognized previously. Teachers can achieve goals of compensatory mathematics education by building on this knowledge. (SKS)

Suggests that algorithms, both traditional and student-invented, are proper objects of study not only as tools for computation, but also for understanding the nature of the operations of arithmetic. (Author/NB)

Suggests ways to increase students' computational fluency using concrete materials, engaging tasks, and reflection time to increase number automaticity, flexibility in thinking about numbers, and use of efficient problem-solving strategies to find sums and differences. (Author/NB)

Describes the use of a soroban, a base-10 computer which is a relative of the Chinese abacus, for developing concepts of number sense, place value, operation sense, and mental computation. Provides pictures of the soroban. (MKR)

Describes a lesson on long division using chip trading which follows that algorithm for long division. (MKR)

This book introduces case studies in mathematics education that provide teachers with opportunities to look at someone else's teaching in an objective way and analyze their own teaching with a critical eye. In addition, this book addresses many of the topics considered the hardest to teach and learn, including place value, number sentences, basic…

This textbook aims to develop all the mathematical power needed by the average person in the accurate control of his affairs. The purpose has been to teach first the most important topics of arithmetic and last those least frequently used. In consequence, the teacher may feel that the child who is leaving school at the end of any particular grade…

Illustrates how an activity called Incredible Equations was used to develop 2nd grade students' number sense and number concepts. Includes student-created equations and an analysis of the mathematics they learned. (Author)

Describes a pattern-based approach to subtraction that enables students to find the amount of change from a purchase "faster than a cash register." (Author/YDS)

Presents math games with die designed to help students learn addition, subtraction, and multiplication while having fun. (KHR)

Introduces addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division of fractions using area models such as rectangles and circles, or linear models such as the number line and fraction strips. (ASK)

Most people struggle to process information auditorily but this is often the way that it is taught. Presents a highly effective method for teaching multiplication that can be accessed at students' fingertips. (ASK)