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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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Backward Transfer: An Investigation of the Influence of Quadratic Functions Instruction on Students' Prior Ways of Reasoning about Linear Functions
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Hohensee, Charles – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2014
The transfer of learning has been the subject of much scientific inquiry in the social sciences. However, mathematics education research has given little attention to a subclass called backward transfer, which is when learning about new concepts influences learners' ways of reasoning about previously encountered concepts. This study examined…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Middle School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Prior Learning
Using Student Reasoning to Inform the Development of Conceptual Learning Goals: The Case of Quadratic Functions
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Lobato, Joanne; Hohensee, Charles; Rhodehamel, Bohdan; Diamond, Jaime – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2012
Despite the proliferation of mathematics standards internationally and despite general agreement on the importance of teaching for conceptual understanding, conceptual learning goals for many K-12 mathematics topics have not been well-articulated. This article presents a coherent set of five conceptual learning goals for a complex mathematical…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Concept Formation, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods