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You Could Never Find This in a Shop!: Using Measurement Skills to Make Pencil Cases
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Goral, Mary Barr; Gilderbloom, Patty – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2008
Measurement is a mathematics skill students encounter often in their daily lives. The act of measuring involves the use of concrete, hands-on materials that students find engaging and appealing. According to Martinie (2004), the best way to teach measurement "is to find or create situations in which students need to measure and let them experience…
Descriptors: Mathematics Skills, Grade 5, Foreign Countries, Primary Education
Using Learning Growth Points to Help Structure Numeracy Teaching.
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Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Pupils progress through a relatively small number of key stages called growth points in numeracy learning. Identifies growth points in developing numeracy and suggests that better support can be offered to children when teachers are aware of the growth points. (ASK)
Descriptors: Division, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Activities
Come in Spinner!: Innovative Assessment in the Primary Classroom.
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Callingham, Rosemary – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Explains how rubrics can be used to assess children's understanding of chance and data concepts. Encounters unexpected results besides assessing chance and data outcomes. (ASK)
Descriptors: Data Interpretation, Educational Assessment, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Catering for all Abilities: An Achievable Goal!
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Smith, Tracey – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
All teachers face the dilemma of trying to cater to the range of abilities of the children in their classes. Explains one teacher's attempt to accomplish this. (ASK)
Descriptors: Ability, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Evaluation Methods
A Classroom Research Project: ESL Students and the Language of Mathematics.
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Leach, Sue; Bowling, Jenny – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Describes a project that addressed how teachers can help second language learners with the difficulties of written mathematical situations. Concludes that retrieving and transforming what students know about mathematics into their own words, and their own words into mathematical language, is a crucial part of mathematics learning. (ASK)
Descriptors: Action Research, Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Sharing Problem Posing and Problem Solving at Home through Diary Writing.
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Leung, Susan; Wu, Rui-Xiang – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Presents a project in which grade 1 children use diary writing as a link between home and school. Describes how they used problem solving and problem posing as part of normal classroom and home activities. (ASK)
Descriptors: Content Area Writing, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 1
Learning How To Be a Mathematician: "When We Go to University We Will Already Know This!"
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Frid, Sandra – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Helping children become mathematicians is a valuable way to engage them with the power of mathematics. Describes an example with primary children and distance education. (ASK)
Descriptors: Distance Education, Educational Technology, Elementary Education, Foreign Countries
Investigations: A Central Focus for Mathematics.
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Lovitt, Charles – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Discusses reasons why problem solving has failed. Offers an alternative approach--the use of investigations in mathematics instruction. Lists the characteristics of an idealized classroom. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Investigations, Mathematics Instruction, Problem Based Learning
Problem Solving Enhances Children's Numeracy Learning.
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Gervasoni, Ann – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Poses several questions about problem solving and provides six reasons that support how problem solving enhances the development of numeracy and mathematical thinking. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction, Numeracy, Problem Solving
Starting Points.
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Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Presents an activity that engages children in thinking about the results of combining numbers. (ASK)
Descriptors: Addition, Elementary Education, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction
Investigating in the Early Years.
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Rogers, Anna – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Describes the mathematical processes that occur during problem solving, reasoning, and communication. Provides examples from mathematics education research with preschoolers. (ASK)
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Cognitive Processes, Elementary Education, Mathematics Instruction
Alternative Assessment.
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Else, Natalie; Thompson, Kerry; Thompson, Don – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Discusses how an alternative assessment approach using journaling can reveal so much more about a child's understanding of mathematics. (ASK)
Descriptors: Alternative Assessment, Elementary Education, Evaluation Methods, Journal Writing
Teaching Angle Measurement without Turning.
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Mitchelmore, Michael – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Considers teaching strategies to help children overcome misconceptions and difficulties with the mathematical concept of angles. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Geometry, Mathematics Activities
Integrating Strands--Open Ended Investigations.
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Becker, Colin – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Reports on rich mathematical activities that integrate different mathematics strands and learning. Describes how to introduce the task and the classroom setting, set up the task, and continue the investigation. Presents student work samples. (ASK)
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Investigations, Mathematics Activities
Starting Points.
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Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2000
Presents two activities on addition, one for classifying and one for symmetry. (ASK)
Descriptors: Addition, Classification, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics
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