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Mulligan, Joanne; English, Lyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
This paper describes students' developing meta-representational competence, drawn from the second phase of a longitudinal study, "Transforming Children's Mathematical and Scientific Development." A group of 21 highly able Grade 1 students was engaged in mathematics/science investigations as part of a data modelling program. A pedagogical…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Science Instruction, Grade 1
Mulligan, Joanne; Hodge, Kerry; Mitchelmore, Mike; English, Lyn – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2013
A 3-year longitudinal study "Transforming Children's Mathematical and Scientific Development" integrates, through data modelling, a pedagogical approach focused on mathematical patterns and structural relationships with learning in science. As part of this study, a purposive sample of 21 highly able Grade 1 students was engaged in an…
Descriptors: Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
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Furnes, Bjarte; Samuelsson, Stefan – Journal of Research in Reading, 2009
The importance of cognitive and language skills on reading and spelling development were investigated in a cross-linguistic longitudinal study of 737 English-speaking children (US/Australia) and 169 Scandinavian children (Norway/Sweden) from preschool to Kindergarten and Grade 1. The results revealed that phonological awareness and print knowledge…
Descriptors: Spelling, Early Reading, Linguistics, Phonological Awareness