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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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Brizuela, Bárbara M.; Blanton, Maria; Sawrey, Katharine; Newman-Owens, Ashley; Murphy Gardiner, Angela – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2015
In this article, we analyze a first grade classroom episode and individual interviews with students who participated in that classroom event to provide evidence of the variety of understandings about variable and variable notation held by first grade children approximately six years of age. Our findings illustrate that given the opportunity,…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Grade 1, Algebra
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Weber, Eric; Tallman, Michael A.; Middleton, James A. – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2015
The purpose of this article is to describe the development of elementary school teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching as they participated in a Modeling Instruction environment that placed heavy emphasis on improving their subject-matter knowledge as a basis for affecting the development of their pedagogical content knowledge. We…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Mathematical Concepts
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Johnson, Heather Lynn – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2015
Contributing to a growing body of research addressing secondary students' quantitative and covariational reasoning, the multiple case study reported in this article investigated secondary students' quantification of ratio and rate. This article reports results from a study investigating students' quantification of rate and ratio as…
Descriptors: Secondary School Students, Mathematical Concepts, Logical Thinking, Case Studies