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Download full textElkind, David – 1998
This paper asserts that any intellectually responsible program to instruct young children in math, science, and technology must overcome at least three seemingly insurmountable obstacles: (1) adults' inability to discover, either by reflection or analysis, the means by which children acquire science and technology concepts; (2) the fact that young…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Concept Formation, Early Childhood Education, Learning Motivation
Peer reviewedTurner, Julianne C.; Meyer, Debra K. – Middle School Journal, 1995
Notes that motivation for learning declines during the middle-grade years and presents suggestions for reversing negative trends in learning, students' willingness to accept challenges, and their feelings of competence and autonomy. Provides instructional-support strategies to address in the mathematics curriculum adolescents' needs for challenge,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Competence, Cooperation, Curriculum Development
