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Pratt, Sarah S.; Lupton, Tina M.; Richardson, Kerri – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
As teachers seek activities to assist students in understanding division as more than just the algorithm, they find many examples of division as fair sharing. However, teachers have few activities to engage students in a quotative (measurement) model of division. Efraim Fischbein and his colleagues (1985) defined two types of whole-number…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Color, Teaching Methods
Neuman, Susan B.; Wright, Tanya S. – American Educator, 2014
Developing a large and rich vocabulary is central to learning to read. Children must know the words that make up written texts in order to understand them, especially as the vocabulary demands of content-related materials increase in the upper grades. Studies have documented that the size of a person's vocabulary is strongly related to how…
Descriptors: Vocabulary Development, Academic Discourse, Poverty, Reading Skills