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Panorkou, Nicole; Maloney, Alan P. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2016
In a classroom teaching experiment, we explored fifth graders' ability to identify relationships in and between two patterns--what we may refer to as functional relationships. Conventional functions curricula are dominated by defining relationships between two patterns via a rule, describing how to find y or f(x) given a particular value for x…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Grade 5, Elementary School Mathematics
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Yanik, H. Bahadir; Karabas, Celil – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2014
Modeling requires that people develop representations or procedures to address particular problem situations (Lesh et al. 2000). Mathematical modeling is used to describe essential characteristics of a phenomenon or a situation that one intends to study in the real world through building mathematical objects. This article describes how fifth-grade…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Models, Grade 5