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Peer reviewedMiller, Jane Lincoln; Fey, James T. – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2000
Explores strategies to encourage students' understanding of proportional reasoning. Conducts a study to compare the proportional reasoning of students studying one of the new standards-based curricula with that of students from a control group. (ASK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Comparative Analysis, Elementary Education, Junior High Schools
Direct linkWatson, Jane M.; Shaughnessy, J. Michael – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2004
This article presents two statistical tasks, one on comparing data sets, another on repeated sampling, both of which have powerful connections to proportional reasoning. Students' work and reasoning on these tasks are included, as well as suggestions for ways to use these tasks with middle school students to connect statistical thinking to…
Descriptors: Statistics, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Curriculum, Problem Solving
