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Peer reviewedRobitaille, David F.; Sherrill, James M. – Alberta Journal of Educational Research, 1981
Data indicated that high percentages of fifth- through eighth-grade low achievers had high algorithm confidence for the operations of addition, subtraction, and multiplication. A substantial proportion in each grade expressed a low degree of confidence in their computational method for division. (CM)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Computation, Confidence Testing, Elementary Secondary Education
Download full textLanda, L. – 1995
The reasons people most often give for the failures of U.S. schools involve poverty, racial inequality, and a host of social problems. This paper argues that even if all these conditions were remedied, the schools would not produce many more people with the ability to think than they do today. Teachers, who are usually able to think, do not know…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Concept Teaching, Elementary Secondary Education, Generalization
Peer reviewedSwart, William L. – Arithmetic Teacher, 1975
Students who were unsuccessful in performing long division were taught to use a successive subtractions algorithm. (SD)
Descriptors: Algorithms, Basic Skills, Division, Elementary School Mathematics
