Motivating Students To Learn: Lessons from a Fifth Grade Math Class.

Turner, Julianne C.; Meyer, Debra K.

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ERIC Number: EJ595741

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Publication Date: 1995

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Motivating Students To Learn: Lessons from a Fifth Grade Math Class.

Turner, Julianne C.; Meyer, Debra K.

Middle School Journal, v27 n1 p18-25 Sep 1995

Notes that motivation for learning declines during the middle-grade years and presents suggestions for reversing negative trends in learning, students' willingness to accept challenges, and their feelings of competence and autonomy. Provides instructional-support strategies to address in the mathematics curriculum adolescents' needs for challenge, control, and collaboration. (LBT)

Descriptors: Adolescents, Competence, Cooperation, Curriculum Development, Educational Trends, Grade 5, Learning Motivation, Mathematics Curriculum, Mathematics Education, Middle School Students, Middle Schools, Self Control, Student Motivation, Student Needs

Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom; Journal Articles

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Language: English

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