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Zhang, Qinqiong; Stephens, Max – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2013
This study involving 120 Australian and Chinese teachers introduces a construct of teacher capacity to analyse how teachers help students connect arithmetic learning and emerging algebraic thinking. Four criteria formed the basis of our construct of teacher capacity: knowledge of mathematics, interpretation of the intentions of official curriculum…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, National Curriculum, Curriculum Design
Bereiter, Carl; And Others – 1969
Seven studies were undertaken to further extend the development and testing of an academically-oriented preschool program for disadvantaged children. The studies investigated (1) Curricula Development and Testing in Bereiter-Engelmann Program, (2) Dual Kindergarten, (3) Follow-Up Data on the Achievement of Disadvantaged Children Who Participated…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Auditory Discrimination, Compensatory Education, Curriculum Design
Monroe, Walter Scott – Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, 1917
The arithmetic with which the American schoolboy of the twentieth century wrestles differs in many respects from the "cyphering" which was truly a stumbling block to many a child in colonial days. Not only have there been significant changes in the subject matter of arithmetic, but also in the aim of instruction, in the place of…
Descriptors: Educational History, Arithmetic, Curriculum Development, Mathematics Instruction