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Skoumpourdi, Chrysanthi – European Early Childhood Education Research Journal, 2010
The aim of this paper is to investigate the role that auxiliary means (manipulatives such as cubes and representations such as number line) play for kindergartners in working out mathematical tasks. Our assumption was that manipulatives such as cubes would be used by kindergartners easily and successfully whereas the number line would be used by…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Arithmetic, Learning Strategies
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Martinez, Rebecca S.; Missall, Kristen N.; Graney, Suzanne Bamonto; Aricak, O. Tolga; Clarke, Ben – Assessment for Effective Intervention, 2009
The current study examines the technical adequacy of four Early Numeracy Curriculum-Based Measurement (EN-CBM) screening tasks: "Oral Counting" (OC), "Number Identification" (NI), "Quantity Discrimination" (QD), and "Missing Number" (MN). Results from 59 kindergarten students assessed in the fall and spring reveal moderate to high test-retest and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Based Assessment, Numeracy, Predictive Validity, Kindergarten
Naylor, Michael – Teaching Pre K-8, 2006
Negative numbers extend our number line and greatly simplify our calculations, but sometimes students struggle with the concepts. These fun activities will help kids to make sense of the "other half" of our number system.
Descriptors: Number Systems, Kindergarten, Elementary School Students, Middle School Students