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Data Modelling with First-Grade Students
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2012
This paper argues for a renewed focus on statistical reasoning in the beginning school years, with opportunities for children to engage in data modelling. Results are reported from the first year of a 3-year longitudinal study in which three classes of first-grade children (6-year-olds) and their teachers engaged in data modelling activities. The…
Descriptors: Statistics, Science Curriculum, Mathematics Instruction, Data Analysis
Mathematical Modeling in the Primary School: Children's Construction of a Consumer Guide
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2006
This paper examines 6th grade children's local conceptual development and mathematization processes as they worked a comprehensive mathematical modeling problem (creating a consumer guide for deciding the best snack chip) over several class periods. The children and their teachers were participating in a 3-year longitudinal teaching experiment in…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Problem Solving, Mathematics Teachers, Longitudinal Studies
Reconciling Theory, Research, and Practice: A Models and Modelling Perspective
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2003
This paper addresses one approach to reconciling theory, research, and practice, namely, a multitiered teaching experiment involving a models and modelling approach to learning. The four-tiered teaching experiment explored in this paper involves participants at different levels of development who work interdependently towards the common goal of…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Models, Theory Practice Relationship, Learning Processes
The Development of Fifth-Grade Children's Problem-Posing Abilities.
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1997
Investigates the extent to which children's number sense and novel problem-solving skills govern their problem-posing abilities in routine and nonroutine situations. Children who participated in the program appeared to show substantial developments in each of the program components in contrast to those who did not participate. Contains 66…
Descriptors: Creative Thinking, Grade 5, Intermediate Grades, Mathematics Education
Analogical Reasoning and the Development of Algebraic Abstraction.
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English, Lyn D.; Sharry, Patrick V. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1996
Presents a theory of the development of algebraic abstraction that extends Sfard's and Mason's ideas on learners' progress from operational or process-oriented thinking to the abstract or structural perspective. Analyzes secondary school students' approaches to classifying a set of complex equations. (Author/MKR)
Descriptors: Algebra, Case Studies, Cognitive Development, Equations (Mathematics)
Young Children's Combinatoric Strategies.
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English, Lyn D. – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 1991
Fifty children, ranging in age from 4 to 10, were individually administered a series of tasks involving different combinations of 2 items selected from a discrete set of items. Analyses of their performances revealed a series of six, increasingly sophisticated, solution strategies ranging from random number selection of items to a systematic…
Descriptors: Concept Formation, Developmental Tasks, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics