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Peer reviewedCarpenter, Thomas P. – Education and Urban Society, 1985
Children's solutions to simple word problems requiring addition or subtraction skills develop through four stages: (1) modeling with objects; (2) utilization of both modeling and counting strategies; (3) reliance on counting strategies; and (4) reliance on number facts. The current primary mathematics curriculum fails to capitilize on rich…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Informal Education, Learning Processes, Mathematics Curriculum
Peer reviewedHiebert, James – Education and Urban Society, 1985
Many elementary and junior high school students do not become proficient with common and decimal fractions because they have established few connections between the form they learn in the classroom and understandings they already have. (Author/GC)
Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Elementary Secondary Education, Fractions, Knowledge Level
District of Columbia Public Schools, Washington, DC. Dept. of Research and Evaluation. – 1979
Using data collected in 1977-78, the Evaluation System has computed fall and spring mathematics scores on the Prescriptive Mathematics Test (PMT) for classes of students in grades one through six. In addition, relationships of performance on the PMT to class size, attendance, percent of males in the class, number of different test levels used in a…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Achievement Tests, Attendance, Class Size
