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Sullivan, Peter; Lilburn, Pat – 2002
This book helps teachers define good questions, offers tips on how to create their own good questions, and includes a wide variety of questions for use in the classroom. Each chapter of the book is organized by subject area and age group so that teachers can locate the topic their class is working on, then select probing, thought-provoking…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Geometry, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Peer reviewedTabler, M. Bernadine; Jacobson, Marilyn Hall – Arithmetic Teacher, 1980
Presented are activities which give practice in making estimates, gathering data, and checking the reasonableness of results. (TG)
Descriptors: Decimal Fractions, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary Secondary Education, Learning Activities
Download full textCuneo, Diane O. – 1980
Presented are the results of an investigation of stimulus integration capabilities of three- and four-year-old children in judgments of small and large numbers. There is much evidence that suggested young children have a concept of number for small numbers, but not for large ones. A concept of number was hypothesized by Piaget to rest on the…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Evaluation Methods, Experiential Learning
Education Commission of the States, Denver, CO. National Assessment of Educational Progress. – 1977
The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) administered the selected supplemental mathematics exercises to 13-year-old students during October and November 1975 and to 17-year-old students during March and April 1976. This assessment represents a specially modified supplement to 1972-73 full-scale mathematics assessment and was…
Descriptors: Computation, Definitions, Educational Assessment, Elementary Secondary Education
Boston Univ., MA. – 1975
This book contains the first seven chapters of a pilot mathematics sequence for the seventh and eighth grades. The content of the sequence is to serve as a vehicle for the development of relevant computational skills, mathematical reasoning, and geometric perception in three dimensions and is to reflect the application of mathematics to the social…
Descriptors: Activity Units, Curriculum, Fractions, Geometric Concepts
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: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Films
PDF pending restorationZimmermann, Bernd – 1980
A three-dimensional classification system of mathematical problems is given. A background philosophy is constructed through an analysis of different approaches to problem-solving research, leading to the statement of 5 theses and the objectives for the study. An exploratory study of mathematical problem-solving processes is conducted within this…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, College Mathematics, Geometric Concepts
