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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Mathematics Teachers' Perception of Lesson Study as a Continuous Professional Development Programme
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bin Hj Suhaili, Hj Ade Shahren; Khalid, Madihah – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2011
Lesson Study can be viewed as a continuous development programme because it offers teachers support in an environment unlike other traditional continuous development programmes. In this study, 28 primary mathematics teachers were surveyed and 4 out of the 28 were interviewed to examine how they perceived Lesson Study as professional development.…
Descriptors: Evidence, Mathematics Teachers, Faculty Development, Professional Development
Emergent Modelling: From Traditional Indonesian Games to a Standard Unit of Measurement
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Wijaya, Ariyadi; Doorman, L. Michiel; Keijze, Ronald – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2011
In this paper, we describe the way in which traditional Indonesian games can support the learning of linear measurement. Previous research has revealed that young children tend to perform measurement as an instrumental procedure. This tendency may be due to the way in which linear measurement has been taught as an isolated concept, which is…
Descriptors: Measurement, Grade 2, Indonesian, Mathematical Concepts
Identification of Students' Intuitive Mental Computational Strategies for 1, 2 and 3 Digits Addition and Subtraction: Pedagogical and Curricular Implications
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Ghazali, Munirah; Alias, Rohana; Ariffin, Noor Asrul Anuar; Ayub, Ayminsyadora – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2010
This paper reports on a study to examine mental computation strategies used by Year 1, Year 2, and Year 3 students to solve addition and subtraction problems. The participants in this study were twenty five 7 to 9 year-old students identified as excellent, good and satisfactory in their mathematics performance from a school in Penang, Malaysia.…
Descriptors: Mental Computation, Foreign Countries, Number Concepts, Subtraction
Instructional Strategies and Science Achievement of Form 2 Students in Malaysia: Findings from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003
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Saat, Rohaida Mohd.; Ismail, Noor Azina – Journal of Science and Mathematics Education in Southeast Asia, 2006
The present study used data from the Trends in International Mathematics and Science Study (TIMSS) 2003 to look at the trend in instructional strategies in science teaching and its effect on the science achievement. Based on the analysis, the strategies used by most science teachers were demonstration, practical work and the lecture method. Among…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Science Achievement, Foreign Countries, Science Teachers