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1, 2, 3: Counting on Problem Based Learning to Improve Mathematical Achievement in African American Students
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Kelley P. Spahr – ProQuest LLC, 2023
Mathematics is an important component of our everyday lives. It involves necessary skills, such as computation, problem solving, and critical thinking. In spite of this, a significant portion of our students are unable to demonstrate proficiency. These students are typically the underserved, marginalized students who are over represented in…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, African American Students, Mathematics Education
Making Them Gifted: How Elementary Makers' Spaces Reveal Giftedness
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Saunders, Gary L., II – ProQuest LLC, 2022
This study explores how upper-grade elementary makers' spaces reveal creative thinking and critical thinking in identified and unidentified gifted students. It provides evidence that the situated learning context of makers' spaces elicit high-level motivation through constructionist practices and 21st century learning processes that leads to…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Shared Resources and Services, Creative Thinking, Critical Thinking
The Impact of Problem-Based Learning Curricula and Teachers' Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching on the Mathematical Development of Second Grade Students
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Trinter, Christine P. – ProQuest LLC, 2011
The results from the 2007 Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) revealed that the scores of fourth grade students in the 90th percentile showed no measurable change from the results of the first TIMSS assessment in 1995. Contrarily, the scores of the lowest performing fourth graders showed statistically significant…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Mathematics Education, Problem Based Learning, Grade 4