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Thembinkosi Mkhatshwa – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
This qualitative document analysis study reports on opportunities to learn provided by textbooks for mathematics content courses for pre-service elementary teachers. Specifically, the study examined opportunities to engage in problem posing and quantitative reasoning, in the context of fractions, provided by six textbooks commonly used in the…
Descriptors: Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Students
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Nelson, Gena; Crawford, Angela; Hunt, Jessica; Park, Soyoung; Leckie, Emily; Duarte, Alex; Brafford, Tasia; Ramos-Duke, Mary; Zarate, Kary – Learning Disabilities Research & Practice, 2022
The purpose of the systematic review of mathematics intervention syntheses was to identify patterns and gaps in content areas, instructional strategies, effect sizes, and definitions of learning disabilities (LD), mathematics LD (MLD), and mathematics difficulty (MD). Using rigorous inclusion criteria, we evaluated 36 syntheses that included 836…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Learning Disabilities, Learning Problems, Word Problems (Mathematics)
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Gierdien, Faaiz; Smith, Charles; Julie, Cyril – Pythagoras, 2019
The aim of this article is to shift the notion of 'sites' as places of work peculiar to continuous professional development (CPD) to a theoretical level, independent of, yet intimately connected to, their physical meanings, for example universities and schools. Most CPD initiatives have to contend with at least one of these two sites, in which…
Descriptors: Faculty Development, Mathematics Teachers, College School Cooperation, Algebra
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1985
This issue of the journal contains abstracts and critiques of 11 research reports. They concern: a case study of one child's strategies for mental addition; children's understanding of fractions; computation routines prescribed by schools; models in verbal problem solving; predicting eighth-grade algebra achievement; the effectiveness of…
Descriptors: Algebra, Computation, Educational Research, Elementary Secondary Education
Davydov, V. V., Ed. – 1991
This is volume 6 of the series of translations of books from the Soviet literature on research in the psychology of mathematics instruction and on teaching methods influenced by the research. This book contains both a theoretical examination of the connection between instruction and the development of children, and experimental data on a definite…
Descriptors: Algebra, Arithmetic, Cognitive Development, Concept Formation
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1986
This issue of the journal contains abstracts and critiques of 11 research reports. Three of the reports concern problem solving; the remainder pertain to the following topics: the impact of secondary schooling and secondary mathematics on student mathematical behavior; figural matrices; computer-video instruction in mathematics; equivalent…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Computer Managed Instruction