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Taylor, Tara; Knoll, Eva; Landry, Wendy – PRIMUS, 2016
Students often struggle with concepts from abstract algebra. Typical classes incorporate few ways to make the concepts concrete. Using a set of woven paper artifacts, this paper proposes a way to visualize and explore concepts (symmetries, groups, permutations, subgroups, etc.). The set of artifacts used to illustrate these concepts is derived…
Descriptors: Algebra, Mathematical Concepts, Generalization, Abstract Reasoning
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Eren, Bilgehan; Deniz, Jale; Duzkantar, Ayten – Educational Sciences: Theory and Practice, 2013
The purpose of this study was to demonstrate the effectiveness of embedded teaching through the most-to-least prompting procedure in concept teaching to children with autism in Orff-based music activities. In this research, being one of the single subject research designs, multiple probe design was used. The generalization effect of the research…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Autism, Pervasive Developmental Disorders, Concept Teaching
Doig, Brian – 1994
This paper demonstrates a method for constructing long variables using items that elicit partically correct responses across ages. Long variables may be defined by students at different ages (year levels) attempting common items within a test containing other items considered to be appropriate for each age or year level. A developmental model of…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Comprehension, Concept Formation, Concept Teaching
Swatridge, L. W.; Vass, B. – 1975
This activity is one of a series of 17 teacher-developed instructional activities for geography at the secondary-grade level described in SO 009 140. The activity investigates resource management and economics. It employs the student-activity approach to inquiry learning by using group work, simulations, and team research reports. Given data about…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Concept Teaching, Economics, Environmental Education