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Ross, Donna; Fisher, Douglas; Frey, Nancy – Science and Children, 2009
Argumentation in science involves offering and responding to claims, providing and asking for evidence or justifications, and analyzing those claims to formulate a decision (Gross 1990). The authors' experience with students, including those who are English learners, suggests that many young science students benefit from language frames to…
Descriptors: Academic Discourse, Language Usage, Persuasive Discourse, Syntax
Brizuela, Barbara M.; Schliemann, Analucia D. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2003
We explore how fourth grade (9 to 10 year olds) students can come to understand and use the syntactic rules of algebra on the basis of their understanding about how quantities are interrelated. Our classroom data comes from a longitudinal study with students who participated in weekly Early Algebra activities from grades 2 through 4. We describe…
Descriptors: Syntax, Equations (Mathematics), Grade 4, Grade 3