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Susanne Strachota; Ana Stephens; Karisma Morton; Ranza Veltri-Torres; Maria Blanton; Angela Murphy Gardiner; Yewon Sung; Rena Stroud; Eric Knuth – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2024
This study investigated the role of tools in supporting students to reason about even and odd numbers. Participants included Kindergarten, Grade 1, and Grade 2 students (ages 5-8) at two schools in the USA. Students took part in a cross-sectional early algebra intervention in which they were asked to generalize, represent, justify, and reason with…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2
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Traga Philippakos, Zoi A.; MacArthur, Charles A.; Munsell, Sarah – Reading & Writing Quarterly, 2018
Argumentation is challenging for young learners. We used design research to develop an intervention that was based on principles of dialogic argumentation and strategy instruction and used genre elements to guide planning and evaluation for revision. Instruction included oral discussion of children's books, written responses to reading, and the…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Grade 1, Grade 2, Elementary School Students
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Grotzer, Tina A.; Solis, S. Lynneth; Tutwiler, M. Shane; Cuzzolino, Megan Powell – Instructional Science: An International Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2017
Understanding complex systems requires reasoning about causal relationships that behave or appear to behave probabilistically. Features such as distributed agency, large spatial scales, and time delays obscure co-variation relationships and complex interactions can result in non-deterministic relationships between causes and effects that are best…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Science, Kindergarten, Grade 2