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Direct linkRocío 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
Download full textCunningham, Libby – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2019
Research in both the New Zealand and international contexts identifies the need for New Zealand classrooms to foster culturally responsive and mathematical practices that align with Påsifika students' cultural values, backgrounds, interests and experiences. The aim of this study was to investigate how the use of culturally responsive tasks along…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Pacific Islanders, Student Attitudes, Mathematics Instruction
Eisenreich, Heidi; Andreasen, Janet – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2016
The purpose of this study was to investigate the extent to which parents of first, second, and third grade students who attended a two-day workshop on mathematics strategies shifted beliefs about learning mathematics as compared to parents who did not attend the workshops. Parents impact their children's mathematics learning when the students are…
Descriptors: Parent Education, Workshops, Child Rearing, Parenting Skills
Roy, George J.; Tobias, Jennifer M.; Safi, Farshid; Dixon, Juli K. – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2014
As students contribute to social and sociomathematical norms, they will often reorganize their own understandings. As such, the purpose of this article is to describe the ways in which prospective elementary teachers contributed to the norms that were established and "re"-established throughout an entire semester in an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Social Influences
Hodgen, Jeremy; Foster, Colin; Marks, Rachel; Brown, Margaret – Education Endowment Foundation, 2018
This document presents a review of evidence commissioned by the Education Endowment Foundation to inform the guidance document "Improving Mathematics in Key Stages Two and Three" (Education Endowment Foundation, 2017). The review draws on a substantial parallel study by the same research team, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, which…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Skills, Feedback (Response)
Zeman, Anne; Kelly, Kate – 1994
This book is written to answer commonly asked homework questions of fourth, fifth, and sixth graders. Included are facts, charts, definitions, explanations, examples, and illustrations. Topics include ancient number systems; decimal system; math symbols; addition; subtraction; multiplication; division; fractions; estimation; averages; properties;…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Calculators, Computers, Fractions
Finstad, Elaine – 1987
The purpose of this study was to investigate whether homework affects second grade mathematics achievement. The study involved two classes of on-grade-level students and involved a unit on place value. The results indicated that the achievement of the experimental group, which was given homework, was better than the achievement of the control…
Descriptors: Assignments, Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
