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Direct linkCamille Lund – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
Every educator knows the sinking feeling of a lesson gone wrong. As teachers look around the room and realize that many of their students are just not getting it, they often feel like failures. However, the struggle students experience as they persevere through high-quality challenging tasks is not a sign of failure, but rather a key aspect of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Difficulty Level, Mathematics Skills, Teaching Methods
Peer reviewedKamii, Constance; Warrington, Mary Ann – Hiroshima Journal of Mathematics Education, 1995
Describes an attempt to encourage fifth- and sixth-graders to invent their own ways of solving problems involving division with fractions. Emphasizes the importance of social interaction in Piaget's constructivism and explains why debate and verification are important for children's construction of logico-mathematical knowledge. (22 references)…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Constructivism (Learning), Division, Elementary Education
Download full textBrinker, Laura – 1997
This paper describes how a target group of seven students in a combined fourth and fifth grade mathematics class used structured representations to solve fraction problems situated within various realistic contexts. Emphasis is given to the ways in which students' thinking about rational number concepts influences and is influenced by the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Concept Formation
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
PDF pending restorationEducation Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
Education Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
PDF pending restorationEducation Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Division, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
PDF pending restorationEducation Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
PDF pending restorationEducation Development Center, Inc., Newton, MA. – 1973
This is one of a series of 20 booklets designed for participants in an in-service course for teachers of elementary mathematics. The course, developed by the University of Illinois Arithmetic Project, is designed to be conducted by local school personnel. In addition to these booklets, a course package includes films showing mathematics being…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
