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Barlow, Angela T.; Gerstenschlager, Natasha E.; Harmon, Shannon E. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2016
In this article, three instructional situations demonstrate the value of using an "unknown" student's work to allow the advancement of students' mathematical thinking as well as their engagement in the mathematical practice of critiquing the reasoning of others: (1) introducing alternative solution strategies; (2) critiquing inaccuracies…
Descriptors: Mathematical Logic, Mathematics Activities, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Skills
Cavey, Laurie O.; Kinzel, Margaret T. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
Teachers report that engaging students in solving contextual problems is an important part of supporting student understanding of algorithms for fraction division. Meaning for whole-number operations is a crucial part of making sense of contextual problems involving rational numbers. The authors present a developed instructional sequence to…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teacher Education
Lo, Jane-Jane; McCrory, Raven – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
Although increasing emphasis is being placed on mathematical justification in elementary school classrooms, many teachers find it challenging to engage their students in such activities. In part, this may be because the teachers themselves have not had an opportunity to learn what it means to justify solutions or prove elementary school concepts…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Methods Courses, Teacher Education Curriculum, Number Systems
Dubon, Lucille P.; Shafer, Kathryn G. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2010
The initial focus of this kindergarten-level action research project was on identifying which students could create a pattern. The focus then shifted to helping all students successfully achieve this goal. The intervention uses a storyboard where students select colored cubes to represent objects and then snap the cubes together as indicated on…
Descriptors: Action Research, Early Childhood Education, Young Children, Mathematics Skills
Groth, Randall E.; Burgess, Claudia R. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2009
Online conversations help teachers engage in constructive criticism and attend more carefully to aligning lesson plans with problem solving. This article describes a strategy for using an online discussion board to help teachers evaluate one another's lesson plans. The online peer-review activity suggests that fostering critical pedagogical…
Descriptors: Group Discussion, Lesson Plans, Criticism, Peer Evaluation