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A Lesson Based on Student-Generated Ideas: A Practical Example Highlighting the Role of a Teacher
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Fuentes, Sarah Quebec – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2011
The role of a teacher is different from that in traditional mathematics instruction when the implementation of a lesson is based on students' ideas. The author's experience teaching the same lesson (of the latter format) to two different classes of pre-service teachers in an elementary mathematics methods course is described. Since whole-class…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
A Comparison of Curricular Effects on the Integration of Arithmetic and Algebraic Schemata in Pre-Algebra Students
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Moseley, Bryan; Brenner, Mary E. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
This research examines students' ability to integrate algebraic variables with arithmetic operations and symbols as a result of the type of instruction they received, and places their work on scales that illustrate its location on the continuum from arithmetic to algebraic reasoning. It presents data from pre- and post-instruction clinical…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Arithmetic, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
A Curriculum Used to Help Deaf Children Learn Borrowing.
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Christianson, Sandy; Silvia, Evelyn – American Annals of the Deaf, 1978
The article presents the outline of a curriculum that was used successfully to teach deaf elementary school children the concept of "borrowing" as it applies to arithmetic. (Author/DLS)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Curriculum, Deafness, Elementary Education