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Cobb, Paul; And Others – American Educational Research Journal, 1992
To clarify what it means to teach mathematics for understanding and to learn mathematics with understanding, an interactional analysis of video recordings of two lessons in elementary school classrooms is presented. The two classrooms illustrate two distinct classroom traditions, in which mathematics was learned with and without understanding,…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Comprehension, Conventional Instruction, Educational Change
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Barton, Keith C. – American Educational Research Journal, 2001
Classroom observations and interviews with 60 children, aged 6 to 12 years, in Northern Ireland and comparisons with previous U.S. research show the extent to which specific forms of historical representation shape understanding of change over time. As was consistent with differing historical representations, children in Northern Ireland are less…
Descriptors: Change, Comprehension, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students