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Download full textSiegler, Robert; Carpenter, Thomas; Fennell, Francis; Geary, David; Lewis, James; Okamoto, Yukari; Thompson, Laurie; Wray, Jonathan – What Works Clearinghouse, 2010
This practice guide presents five recommendations intended to help educators improve students' understanding of, and problem-solving success with, fractions. Recommendations progress from proposals for how to build rudimentary understanding of fractions in young children; to ideas for helping older children understand the meaning of fractions and…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Problem Solving, Young Children, Elementary Education
Direct linkTugel, Joyce; Porter, Ingrid – Science Scope, 2010
Curriculum top study (CTS) action research is a specific type of inquiry that combines curriculum topic study (Keeley 2005) with an examination of students' thinking using formative assessment probes (Keeley, Eberle, and Farrin 2005; Keeley, Eberle, and Tugel 2007; Keeley, Eberle, and Dorsey 2008; Keeley and Tugel 2009) and a variety of…
Descriptors: Student Evaluation, Action Research, Formative Evaluation, Thinking Skills
Balantic, Jeannette; Fregosi, Erica – Social Studies and the Young Learner, 2012
According to the authors, five years ago their school district embraced Understanding by Design as the organizing framework for curriculum. The emphasis on enduring understandings and essential questions led the sixth grade social studies teachers to reevaluate what they were teaching in their World History Curriculum. Together the authors worked…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Writing Skills, Curriculum Development, Learner Engagement
Kovalik, Susan J.; Olsen, Karen D. – Corwin, 2010
This book examines learning science from multiple perspectives--especially a child's. The whimsical character of Mary Froggins guides readers through the steps of igniting students' natural sense of wonder, incorporating brain research, integrating science concepts with other subjects, and applying science to daily life. The authors demonstrate…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Curriculum Development, Multiple Intelligences, Science Programs
Isiksal, Mine; Cakiroglu, Erdinc – Hacettepe University Journal of Education, 2008
The purpose of this study was to examine preservice mathematics teachers' knowledge about common (mis)conceptions and difficulties of elementary students. In addition, it was aimed to investigate preservice teachers' knowledge about the possible sources of these misconception/difficulties, and their suggested strategies to overcome those…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Education Programs, Cognitive Processes
Cortes, Anibal; Kavafian, Nelly – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2006
Our study concerns the analysis of teacher and student activities. Secondary school 6th grade students were confronted, for the first time, with solving equations. We used our cognitive models of students and experts (in algebraic calculations) for analyzing the teaching process and the cognitive functioning of students. Our model led us to…
Descriptors: Equations (Mathematics), Grade 6, Algebra, Problem Solving
