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Chick, Helen – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2015
Mathematical knowledge in classrooms is mediated through the use of both technical and informal language. This paper is a report of a study of the language use of teachers as they examine students' work and discuss teaching for the topic of fraction operations. This provides a window on their pedagogical content knowledge and also on the way in…
Descriptors: Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematics Achievement, Language Usage, Fractions
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Cramer, Kathleen; Monson, Debra; Ahrendt, Sue; Colum, Karen; Wiley, Bethann; Wyberg, Terry – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
The authors of this article collaborated with fourth-grade teachers from two schools to support implementation of a research-based fraction and decimal curriculum (Rational Number Project: Fraction Operations and Initial Decimal Ideas). Through this study, they identified five indicators of rich conceptual understanding of decimals, which are…
Descriptors: Grade 4, Fractions, Arithmetic, Curriculum Implementation