Describes strategies for using literature to teach number sense and problem solving. Reports that the rich class discussions reflected some of the students' thinking, gave students opportunities to share their approaches and understandings, and gave the teacher additional insights into students' thinking. (JRH)

Explores how to use Gardner's Multiple Intelligence theory to help students' master multiplication. Focuses on helping children use their different intelligence strength to attain conceptual understanding of multiplication, develop their own thinking strategies for harder facts, and build mastery through practice and problem solving. (KHR)

Reports on aspects of the Tasmanian Centre of the Adult Literacy and Numeracy Australian Research Consortium, which investigated the role of the Workplace English Language and Literacy program in supporting provision for literacy and numeracy in training packages. (Adjunct ERIC Clearinghouse for ESL Literacy Education)(Author/VWL)

Applies Gresham's Law ("bad money drives out good") to educators' overreliance on technology. Introducing more advanced "learning" technology without a concomitant emphasis on knowledge acquisition allows some students to operate at increasingly lower thought levels. Higher order thought processes will be displaced (and…

Math teachers who spend most of their time lecturing at a chalkboard or assigning textbook problems are not reaching many students. To achieve math literacy goals, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics encourages teachers to help students learn to value mathematics, gain confidence in their math abilities, and become good mathematical…

Examines the use of mental, written, and calculator strategies of numerical computation by 56 upper primary students. Finds that students introduced to a "calculator-aware" curriculum make greater use of mental computation, particularly multiplication strategies based on distribution and compensation. Notes implications for models of…

Emphasizes the need to teach probability and statistics to elementary school students. Explains that it will help them think more logically about arguments and enable them to explain their thinking with numerical information. Describes different exercises that will allow students to learn about statistics, probability, and data collection and…

Provides instructions for 23 mathematics learning activities for young children in early childhood settings. Includes activities for ordering, numeral recognition, counting, number sense and numeration, and a list of suggested music, movement, and book ideas for each area. (KB)

Introduces a course using mPowerNet to develop course material by using computers to teach numeracy. Presents the guiding principles of the course, mathematics material, course material, and course guidance. (ASK)

Discusses empirical evaluations of Integrated Learning Systems (ILS) in United Kingdom classrooms that were conducted to determine their effectiveness in gains in numeracy and literacy. Results were inconclusive, and influencing factors including research methodology, conceptual analysis, and ways in which technology are assimilated into teaching…

Examines effects of teacher behaviors and classroom organization on 2,128 pupils' progress in mathematics in UK primary schools participating in a math intervention program. Using multilevel modeling techniques, finds that teacher behaviors could explain between 60 and 70 percent of pupils' progress on numeracy tests. (Contains 35 references.)…

Lessons learned from British projects to delivery literacy, numeracy, and English as a second language through community agencies included the following: (1) innovation and measured risks are required to attract hard-to-reach adults; (2) good practice needs to be shared; and (3) projects worked best when government funds were managed by community…

A study examined the effectiveness of an intervention program designed to promote numeracy skills in children with deafness by addressing additive composition, additive reasoning, multiplicative reasoning, and ratio and fractions. The 23 participants in the intervention performed significantly better than 65 controls on a mathematics achievement…

Inner-city families with babies received books under Project Bookstart. Follow-up of 41 children in their first year of school showed that, compared with 41 who did not participate in the project, participants were significantly farther ahead in six measures of literacy and numeracy. (SK)

Children from grades 2, 3, 4, 6, and 8 made speeded, bimanual parity (odd/even) judgments of numerals. Response times indicated that from fourth grade on, parity information was retrieved directly from memory. By grade 3, children represented magnitude information as a left-to-right number line which was accessed obligatorily and, by grades 6 and…