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Rodríguez-Santos, José Miguel; Calleja, Marina; García-Orza, Javier; Iza, Mauricio; Damas, Jesús – American Annals of the Deaf, 2014
Deaf Children usually achieve lower scores on numerical tasks than normally hearing peers. Explanations for mathematical disabilities in hearing children are based on quantity representation deficits (Geary, 1994) or on deficits in accessing these representations (Rousselle & Noël, 2008). The present study aimed to verify, by means of symbolic…
Descriptors: Evidence, Deafness, Partial Hearing, Number Concepts
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Danielson, Christopher – School Science and Mathematics, 2010
This paper describes the author's attempt to design assignments that engage preservice elementary teachers in original mathematical thinking. In particular, the choice of integer operations as the focus of a structured writing assignment that takes students two weeks to complete is explained and justified. Exemplary student work is quoted.…
Descriptors: Writing Assignments, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Curriculum, Preservice Teacher Education
Edwards, Sharon A.; Maloy, Robert W.; Anderson, Gordon – Literacy Coaching Clearinghouse, 2009
"Math is language, too," Phyllis and David Whitin (2000) remind everyone in their informative book about reading and writing in the mathematics classroom. This means that students in elementary school math classes are learning two distinct, yet related languages--one of numbers, the other of words. These languages of numbers and words…
Descriptors: Numbers, Word Problems (Mathematics), Grade 4, Elementary School Teachers