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Quintero, Ana Helvia – Arithmetic Teacher, 1986
Presents activities designed to help children understand the notion of a sample in a homogeneous group, a concept essential to understanding "R times E" problems. Underscores the importance of children's understanding the situation in a problem so that they can solve it. (JN)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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Spitler, Gail – Arithmetic Teacher, 1979
Allowing students to examine different ways of performing an operation is suggested as a means of increasing their understanding. (MP)
Descriptors: Addition, Algorithms, Computation, Concept Formation
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Nelson, Rebecca S. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1979
Rules are given for two games designed to help students learn the multiplication facts. (MK)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Games
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Quintero, Ana Helvia – Arithmetic Teacher, 1985
Analyzes multiplication word problems to identify the origin of children's difficulty. Emphasis is given to problems involving the concept of combination. (JN)
Descriptors: Comprehension, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Elementary Education
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Cramer, Kathleen; Bezuk, Nadine – Arithmetic Teacher, 1991
Applies the Lesh Translation Model to develop conceptual understanding by showing relationships between five modes of representation proposed by Lesh to learn multiplication of fractions. Presents five teaching activities based on the translation model. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Elementary Education, Fractions
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Cooke, Marcia B. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1993
Discusses a method of teaching the multiplication of integers to eighth-grade students that utilizes videotape recordings to represent positive and negative rates. Videotapes of students walking forward and backward in the play and rewind modes illustrate that the product of two negatives is positive. (MDH)
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Distance, Educational Technology, Educational Television
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Graeber, Anna O. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1993
Discusses the two overgeneralizations "multiplications makes bigger" and "division makes smaller" in the context of solving word problems involving rational numbers less than one. Presents activities to help students make sense of multiplication and division in these situations. (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Concept Formation, Decimal Fractions, Division
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Baker, Delores; And Others – Arithmetic Teacher, 1990
Uses of calculators to teach the concept of exponents are described. Topics covered on activity sheets include powers of two, number systems, and powers as repeated multiplication. Cooperative learning is emphasized. (KR)
Descriptors: Calculators, Computation, Concept Formation, Elementary School Mathematics