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Montague, Majorie – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1997
Discusses the use of cognitive strategy instruction to improve students' performance in mathematics. The theoretical and research base for strategy instruction is reviewed, and developmental characteristics of students who have difficulties in mathematics are examined. A practical example of cognitive strategy instruction illustrates assessment…
Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, Elementary Secondary Education, Instructional Design, Junior High Schools
Yackel, Erna; Bowers, Janet – 1997
This paper examines students' mathematics learning in a social context as two versions of an instructional sequence designed to facilitate students' development of a conceptual foundation for place-value numeration are enacted in two third grade classrooms. The same instructional sequence is used in each classroom with the regular classroom…
Descriptors: Action Research, Case Studies, Classroom Environment, Cognitive Structures