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Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Marks, Rachel; Brown, Margaret – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This document presents a review of evidence commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation to inform the guidance document "Improving Mathematics in Key Stages Two and Three" (Education Endowment Foundation, 2017). The review draws on a substantial parallel study by the same research team, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills, Feedback (Response)
Crespo, Irma S. Z. B. – Online Submission, 2009
Technology is a means that makes work or tasks easy, efficient, and operative. A more encompassing definition refers to it "as the tools created by human knowledge of how to combine resources to produce desired products, to solve problems, fulfill needs, or satisfy wants" (Koehler and Mishra. 2008:5). It can either be contrivances of tradition or…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Internet, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Tall, David; Gray, Eddie; Bin Ali, Maselan; Crowley, Lillie; DeMarois, Phil; McGowen, Mercedes; Pitta, Demetra; Pinto, Marcia; Thomas, Michael; Yusof, Yudariah – 2000
Symbols occupy a pivotal position between processes to be carried out and concepts to be thought about. They allow us both to do mathematical problems and to think about mathematical relationships. In this presentation, the discontinuities that occur in the learning path taken by different students, leading to a divergence between conceptual and…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Concept Mapping
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Higgins, Jon L., Ed. – 1979
This document provides abstracts of 20 research reports. Topics covered include: children's comprehension of simple story problems; field independence and group instruction; problem-solving competence and memory; spatial visualization and the use of manipulative materials; effects of games on mathematical skills; problem-solving ability and right…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Algebra, Calculators, Computation
Davydov, V. V., Ed. – 1991
This is volume 6 of the series of translations of books from the Soviet literature on research in the psychology of mathematics instruction and on teaching methods influenced by the research. This book contains both a theoretical examination of the connection between instruction and the development of children, and experimental data on a definite…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation