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What Works Clearinghouse, 2021
This document includes instructional tips on: (1) Building on students' informal understanding of sharing and proportionality to develop initial fraction concepts; (2) Helping students recognize that fractions are numbers that expand the number system beyond whole numbers, and using number lines to teach this and other fraction concepts; (3)…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Instructional Effectiveness, Fractions, Elementary School Students
Bahadir, Elif – Online Submission, 2017
Developments in mathematics education tend to emphasize mathematics teaching with the help of activities that will allow the students to create these concepts rather than to make them memorize mathematical rules. The purpose of this study is to analyze the applicability of the application of multiplication with fingers developed by the researcher.…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Visualization
Huang, Amy I-Yu – ProQuest LLC, 2013
This study reports findings from a teaching experiment in which 4th grade children engaged in solving multiplication tasks with rectangular arrays in a computer environment. The environment provided flexible task-solving through dynamic virtual manipulatives (VMs) so children could use their existing knowledge of multiplication to complete array…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Multiplication, Problem Solving, Elementary School Mathematics
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Williams, Dawn M.; Collins, Belva C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1994
This study evaluated the effectiveness of the constant time delay procedure, while comparing the efficiency of using teacher-selected and student-selected material prompts, in teaching multiplication facts to 4 male students with learning disabilities (ages 9 to 13). Results indicated that the time delay procedure was most efficient when students…
Descriptors: Computation, Cues, Elementary Education, Instructional Effectiveness
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Koscinski, Susan T.; Gast, David L. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1993
This study demonstrated the effectiveness and efficiency of a constant time delay procedure (four seconds) to teach five elementary students with learning disabilities multiplication facts. Learning generalized to a paper-and-pencil task, to a different presentation orientation, and to reverse facts. (DB)
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Computation, Elementary Education, Generalization