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Fuentes, Sarah Quebec – Issues in the Undergraduate Mathematics Preparation of School Teachers, 2011
The role of a teacher is different from that in traditional mathematics instruction when the implementation of a lesson is based on students' ideas. The author's experience teaching the same lesson (of the latter format) to two different classes of pre-service teachers in an elementary mathematics methods course is described. Since whole-class…
Descriptors: Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction
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Moseley, Bryan; Brenner, Mary E. – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2009
This research examines students' ability to integrate algebraic variables with arithmetic operations and symbols as a result of the type of instruction they received, and places their work on scales that illustrate its location on the continuum from arithmetic to algebraic reasoning. It presents data from pre- and post-instruction clinical…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Arithmetic, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
Seeley, Cathy L. – Math Solutions, 2009
NCTM Past President Cathy L. Seeley shares her messages on today's most relevant topics and issues in education. Based on Cathy L. Seeley's award-winning NCTM President's Messages, and including dozens of new messages, this must-have K-12 resource offers straight talk and common sense about some of today's most important, thought-provoking issues…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Mathematics Education, Achievement Gap, Creativity