ERIC Number: ED572967
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 2013
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
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Tracking Structural Development through Data Modelling in Highly Able Grade 1 Students
Mulligan, Joanne; Hodge, Kerry; Mitchelmore, Mike; English, Lyn
Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia (MERGA) (36th, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 2013)
A 3-year longitudinal study "Transforming Children's Mathematical and Scientific Development" integrates, through data modelling, a pedagogical approach focused on mathematical patterns and structural relationships with learning in science. As part of this study, a purposive sample of 21 highly able Grade 1 students was engaged in an innovative data modelling program. In the majority of students, representational development was observed. Their complex graphs depicting categorical and continuous data revealed a high level of structure and enabled identification of structural features critical to this development.
Descriptors: Grade 1, Longitudinal Studies, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics, Intelligence Tests, Verbal Ability, Vocabulary, Science Instruction, Interdisciplinary Approach, Graphs, Males
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Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research
Education Level: Grade 1; Primary Education; Elementary Education; Early Childhood Education
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Language: English
Sponsor: Australian Research Council
Authoring Institution: Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Identifiers - Location: Australia
Identifiers - Assessments and Surveys: Peabody Picture Vocabulary Test; Raven Progressive Matrices
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