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Howell, Tracey H. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
In an era of new standards and emerging accountability systems, an understanding of the supports needed to aid teachers and students in making necessary transitions in mathematics teaching and learning is critical. Given the established research base demonstrating the importance of justification and reasoning in students' mathematics learning and…
Descriptors: High School Students, Persuasive Discourse, Mathematical Logic, Teacher Expectations of Students
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Hong, Dae S. – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 2011
In its mathematics standards, National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) states that problem solving is an integral part of all mathematics learning and exposure to problem solving strategies should be embedded across the curriculum. Furthermore, by high school, students should be able to use, decide and invent a wide range of strategies.…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Testing, Problem Solving, Mathematics Teachers
Hunkins, Francis P. – 1986
The central objective of this study was to determine the effects of formal training in the use and types of questions and in the nature and use of algorithms on middle school students' achievement in economic geography. Subjects were 190 eighth grade students in a large metropolitan school district. Three experimental groups received either: (1)…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Algorithms, Analysis of Variance, Cognitive Development