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Direct linkCamille Lund – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Every educator knows the sinking feeling of a lesson gone wrong. As teachers look around the room and realize that many of their students are just not getting it, they often feel like failures. However, the struggle students experience as they persevere through high-quality challenging tasks is not a sign of failure, but rather a key aspect of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Difficulty Level, Mathematics Skills, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedKamii, Constance; Warrington, Mary Ann – Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, 1995
Describes an attempt to encourage fifth- and sixth-graders to invent their own ways of solving problems involving division with fractions. Emphasizes the importance of social interaction in Piaget's constructivism and explains why debate and verification are important for children's construction of logico-mathematical knowledge. (22 references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Constructivism (Learning), Division, Elementary Education
