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Tang Wee Teo – Journal of Curriculum Studies, 2024
Many empirical studies about STEM (science, technology, engineering, and mathematics) curriculum present problems for students to solve. This paper draws upon the data collected from the enactment of an integrated STEM curriculum to discuss problems as constitutive of problem spaces where four Grade 5 Singapore students engage with the…
Descriptors: STEM Education, Integrated Curriculum, Inquiry, Problem Solving
Antuni Wiyarsi; Muammer Çalik; Erfan Priyambodo; Dina Dina – Science & Education, 2024
This study explored Indonesian prospective teachers' views on the adapted (including global socio-scientific issues) and revisited (including local socio-scientific issues) versions of the scientific habits of mind (SHOM) scale and compared their SHOM levels concerning teacher education programs and grades. The sample of the study consisted of…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Student Attitudes, Cognitive Processes
Young, Erica Slate; Dyess, Sarah Roller – Mathematics Teacher Educator, 2021
Prospective and practicing elementary teachers have historically demonstrated anxiety about mathematics, which can affect their mathematics teaching and their students' math anxiety. Yet, developing productive dispositions prior to teacher preparation programs is rarely addressed in the research. We propose mindset messaging in mathematics courses…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Methods Courses, Mathematics Education
Richardson, Hannah – Online Submission, 2017
This research explores solutions and challenges pertaining to a child's development of self-efficacy. After working with fifth grade students in a public education setting, Inoticed an increased reliance on teachers for both creative and procedural directions. This paper explores research of educators who examine the internal and external factors…
Descriptors: Self Efficacy, Self Management, Grade 5, Check Lists
Siegler, Robert; Carpenter, Thomas; Fennell, Francis; Geary, David; Lewis, James; Okamoto, Yukari; Thompson, Laurie; Wray, Jonathan – What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
This practice guide presents five recommendations intended to help educators improve students' understanding of, and problem-solving success with, fractions. Recommendations progress from proposals for how to build rudimentary understanding of fractions in young children; to ideas for helping older children understand the meaning of fractions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Young Children, Elementary Education
Egan, Teresa M.; Cobb, Beth; Anastasia, Marion – Journal of Staff Development, 2009
In the past, if a question is asked of a student, and that student needed a few minutes to think, that student's thinking would be interrupted by somebody else who'd be shouting out. Now, teachers at St. Johnsbury School in Vermont are really focusing on think time for students and really working with other students in the classroom to be…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Questioning Techniques, Formative Evaluation
Boyer, Ty W.; Levine, Susan C.; Huttenlocher, Janellen – Developmental Psychology, 2008
Previous studies have found that children have difficulty solving proportional reasoning problems involving discrete units until 10 to 12 years of age, but can solve parallel problems involving continuous quantities by 6 years of age. The present studies examine where children go wrong in processing proportions that involve discrete quantities. A…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Cognitive Processes, Children, Elementary Education
Brenninkmeyer, Lawrence D.; Spillane, James P. – School Leadership & Management, 2008
Principals are increasingly expected to be the instructional as well as administrative leaders of their schools. However, little is known about how principals reason through the instructional issues that they face. An analysis of principal reasoning in instructional contexts is critical. The study presented in this article draws on interviews with…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Principals, Cognitive Processes, Instructional Leadership
Feldman, Ruth Duskin – Instructor, 1986
While researchers and teachers are still sorting out which programs work best in which circumstances, some basic ideas about thinking can be used by teachers. Suggestions for encouraging thinking in the classroom are offered. (MT)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Problem Solving

Kochen, Manfred; And Others – Instructional Science, 1976
When mathematics is used to help people cope with real-life situations, a three-stage intellectual process is involved. An operational instrument for assessing how a person moves from the first to the second and third stage is proposed. (Author)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics

Tant, Judy L.; Douglas, Virginia I. – Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 1982
Diagnostic problem solving was examined in 36 hyperactive, 36 normal, and 25 nonhyperactive reading disabled boys from grades two through six. On a matrix solution task, hyperactives used less efficient questions and strategies than the other two groups, despite the task being designed to maximize performance of hyperactives. (Author/SW)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Hyperactivity, Problem Solving
Capper, Joanne – Executive Educator, 1984
Researchers suggest that teachers should place greater emphasis on the qualitative understanding of the procedures involved in mathematical problem-solving. Administrators can advise teachers to encourage students and show them how to be more thorough in analyzing problems. (MLF)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Mathematics Skills, Problem Solving
Brown, Dawn L.; Wheatley, Grayson H. – Focus on Learning Problems in Mathematics, 1997
Investigates students' use of imagery in their mathematical activities. Findings indicate that image forming is crucial in doing mathematics. A student who fails to construct an image in a problem-solving situation is severely limited in giving meaning to the situation. Contains 21 references. (JRH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Imagery, Learning Strategies

Roth, Wolff-Michael – Research in Science Education, 1995
Investigated problem- and solution-related activity of (n=28) fourth and fifth graders in ill-defined and open-ended settings. In the course of their negotiations, students demonstrated an uncanny competence to frame and reframe problems and solutions and to decide courses of actions of different complexities in spite of the ambiguous nature of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Engineering
Perkins, D. N.; And Others – 1986
The thinking processes of students of Logo were examined to identify programming problems and possible instructional remedies. Subjects were 11 students between the ages of 8 and 12 who had completed 5 weeks of Logo instruction. These students were given a series of five short programming problems highlighting such areas of difficulty as judging…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Difficulty Level, Elementary Education, Problem Solving