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Rocío Mínguez-Pardo; Javier Del Olmo-Muñoz; Sergio Tirado-Olivares; José Antonio González-Calero – Journal of Computer Assisted Learning, 2024
Background: The present study delves into the debate surrounding the effectiveness of homework, focusing specifically on the use of online homework in teaching decimal numbers to 5th and 6th grade primary school students. It highlights the challenges students face in representing and identifying decimal numbers, a concept that is often difficult…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Homework, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts
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Vazquez, Salvador R.; Ermeling, Bradley A.; Ramirez, Gerardo – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2020
Productive struggle--expending effort to make sense of something beyond one's current level of understanding--aids in learning mathematics concepts and procedures. In this study, we surveyed 197 parents with children in the 1st to the 5th grade on their beliefs about productive struggle. Beliefs were assessed via questionnaire and rating of a…
Descriptors: Parent Attitudes, Knowledge Level, Problem Solving, Homework
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Walk, Lee; Lassak, Marshall – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2017
Two studies (Trautwein 2007 and Dettmers et al. 2010) show a positive correlation between high-quality homework and mathematics achievement. Students who completed their homework assignments scored better on assessments. However, these studies also showed no relationship between time spent on homework and resulting student achievement. This helped…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Achievement, Homework, Student Achievement
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Natarajan, Rekha; Bennett, Andrew – PRIMUS, 2014
Although the use of traditional just-in-time teaching techniques has long been viewed positively by students and instructors in undergraduate calculus courses, past studies in this area have not addressed gains in student achievement with respect to specific calculus topics. This paper investigates the latter by administering modified just-in-time…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Undergraduate Study, Mathematics Achievement, Calculus
Powell, Amber – ProQuest LLC, 2017
Flipped instructional approaches are innovative instructional practices that focus on students reviewing the lecture materials outside of class and working on homework problems during class time. A growing body of research highlights the effectiveness of flipped instructional approaches in improving student performance in statistics courses.…
Descriptors: Educational Technology, Technology Uses in Education, Homework, Video Technology
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Powell-Mikle, Angiline; Patton, Mary Martin – Childhood Education, 2004
Despite some characterization as being uninvolved in the education of their children, African American parents have always valued education and recognized it as the key to economic and political freedom. Despite laws in the United States prohibiting the education of slaves, African Americans were the first southerners to campaign for universal,…
Descriptors: Mathematics Achievement, Homework, African American Culture, Culturally Relevant Education