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Michelle Lo; Teresa K. Dunleavy – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2025
The mathematics classroom is particularly vulnerable to these judgments of perfectionism, with endless evidence of students and teachers believing that mathematics is based on an ultimate truth or a single, objective, unique answer. School mathematics still favors students' participation in rote procedures, memorization, and using only a few…
Descriptors: High School Students, High School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Standards
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Mansilla, Veronica Boix; Gardner, Howard – Educational Leadership, 2008
Most students in most schools today study subject matter. They and their teachers conceive of the educational task as committing to memory large numbers of facts, formulas, and figures. A far more sophisticated perspective emphasizes teaching disciplines and disciplinary thinking. The goal of this approach is to instill in students the disposition…
Descriptors: Teacher Role, Role of Education, Thinking Skills, Comprehension
Harada, Violet H.; Yoshina, Joan M. – Library Media Connection, 2004
The inquiry-focused learning is a process that provokes deeper thinking and investigation and greater student motivation to learn. Inquiry is a process of learning that embraces features such as learning experience, assessment, and questioning thus embodying an educational philosophy that directly responds to the national emphasis on high…
Descriptors: Learning Processes, Inquiry, Thinking Skills, Learning Strategies