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Peer reviewedFortescue, Chelsea M. – Language Arts, 1994
Shares observations made by a third-grade teacher who experimented with a variety of strategies to improve her students' abilities to write about mathematics. Notes that this gave the teacher a greater understanding of how students approached solving math problems and helped students practice writing in a meaningful way. (SR)
Descriptors: Class Activities, Content Area Writing, Grade 3, Interdisciplinary Approach
Rosenbaum, Nina J. – 1981
The writing done in a biology class has a great deal in common with the writing done in the humanities and the social sciences. Because the scientific method of investigation requires the student to examine and understand the physical world by asking questions and then answering them through empirical investigation, clear and concise writing is…
Descriptors: Biology, Content Area Writing, Educational Cooperation, Interdisciplinary Approach
Download full textNarode, Ronald – 1986
This document argues that qualitative graphing is an effective introduction to mathematics as a construction for communication of ideas involving quantitative relationships. It is suggested that with little or no prior knowledge of Cartesian coordinates or analytic descriptions of graphs using equations students can successfully grasp concepts of…
Descriptors: Algebra, Analytic Geometry, College Mathematics, Content Area Writing
MacDonald, Susan Peck – 1985
Academic writing is distinguished by its being a problem solving activity, no matter how tentative the solutions. In this regard, writing about literature is a form of academic writing that shares the same assumptions as other academic writing. The problem solving activity of the literary interpreter consists of discovering, preserving, or…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Interpretive Skills
Bannister, Linda; Kearns, Richard – 1985
Based on a project concerned with studying invention across the curriculum, this paper discusses an across-the-curriculum writing program that encourages students to take control of what they are studying, contributing to what is known rather than being passively filled by it. The paper (1) challenges the current notion that creative behavior is a…
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Creative Thinking, Creativity, Critical Thinking
Direct linkBrown, Stephen I.; Walter, Marion I. – Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (Bks), 2005
The new edition of this classic book describes and provides a myriad of examples of the relationships between problem posing and problem solving, and explores the educational potential of integrating these two activities in classrooms at all levels. "The Art of Problem Posing, Third Edition" encourages readers to shift their thinking…
Descriptors: Cultural Pluralism, Computer Uses in Education, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
