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Norton, Anderson; Wilkins, Jesse L. M. – Cognition and Instruction, 2013
Previous research has demonstrated the effectiveness of particular instructional practices that support students' constructions of the partitive unit fraction scheme and measurement concepts for fractions. Another body of research has demonstrated the power of a particular mental operation--the splitting operation--in supporting students'…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 6, Grade 7, Algebra
Singer, Florence Mihaela – Mind, Brain, and Education, 2007
Effective teaching should focus on representational change, which is fundamental to learning and education, rather than conceptual change, which involves transformation of theories in science rather than the gradual building of knowledge that occurs in students. This article addresses the question about how to develop more efficient strategies for…
Descriptors: Teacher Effectiveness, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation, Cognitive Development

Davidson, Patricia S.; And Others – 1985
The Education Technology Center (ETC) Fractions Group works to investigate well-documented difficulties that children have in understanding fractions. A central assumption underlying this group's inquiry is that students' difficulties in manipulating fractions arise from their lack of understanding about the nature of fractions. In order to learn…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Mathematics

Mansfield, Helen M.; Happs, John C. – School Science and Mathematics, 1992
Reports misconceptions identified in students with respect to the topic of parallel lines and the teaching strategies found to be useful in challenging those misconceptions. (11 references) (MDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Concept Formation