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Pratt, Sarah S.; Lupton, Tina M.; Richardson, Kerri – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2015
As teachers seek activities to assist students in understanding division as more than just the algorithm, they find many examples of division as fair sharing. However, teachers have few activities to engage students in a quotative (measurement) model of division. Efraim Fischbein and his colleagues (1985) defined two types of whole-number…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts, Color, Teaching Methods
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Cramer, Kathleen A.; Monson, Debra S.; Wyberg, Terry; Leavitt, Seth; Whitney, Stephanie B. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2009
Appropriate concrete and pictorial models allow students to construct meaning for rational numbers and operations with the numbers. To develop deep understanding of rational number, sixth through eighth graders must experience a variety of models (NCTM 2000). Since 1979, personnel from the Rational Number Project (RNP), a cooperative research and…
Descriptors: Number Concepts, Grade 8, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction
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Bird, Elliott – Teaching Children Mathematics, 1999
Describes a problem-solving lesson involving 24 attribute blocks in which students discuss relationships between patterns, colors, shapes, and quantity. (ASK)
Descriptors: Color, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities