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Gvozdic, Katarina; Sander, Emmanuel – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2020
Informal strategies reflecting the representation of a situation described in an arithmetic word problem mediate students' solving processes. When the informal strategies are inefficient, teaching students to make way for more efficient ways to find the solution is an important educational issue in mathematics. The current paper presents a…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Word Problems (Mathematics), Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students
Moore, Patience – Teaching Music, 2011
Teaching music to nearly a thousand elementary students each week would make any educator break a sweat. But one would never know that from talking to MaryElla Neeley Stevens. After 30-plus years teaching K-4 music in the Aldine Independent School District of Houston, Texas, she still radiates positivity. Whether it's mentoring and training…
Descriptors: Classroom Techniques, Music Teachers, Music Education, Profiles
Duncan-Owens, Deborah – Principal, 2009
"Give a man a fish and he will eat for a day. Teach a man to fish and he will eat for the rest of his life." This popular Chinese proverb is an apt metaphor for the dilemma faced by principals and curriculum coordinators when deciding whether to purchase a scripted commercial reading program. Although a scripted reading program may solve…
Descriptors: Reading Materials, Reading, Reading Programs, Program Effectiveness