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Gavin, M. Katherine; Moylan, Karen G. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2012
All good teachers recognize their students' varying learning needs and strive to meet them. So differentiation is certainly not a revolutionary idea. In fact, Tomlinson and Eidson describe differentiated instruction as "really just common sense" (2003, p. 1). In practice, however, offering such opportunities for students is challenging. In this…
Descriptors: Student Needs, Individualized Instruction, Formative Evaluation, Teaching Methods
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Parker, Renee; Breyfogle, M. Lynn – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2011
Beginning in third grade, Pennsylvania students are required to take the Pennsylvania State Standardized Assessment (PSSA), which presents multiple-choice mathematics questions and open-ended mathematics problems. Consistent with the Communication Standard of the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, while solving the open-ended problems,…
Descriptors: Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Teachers, Action Research