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O'Brien, Peter; Richardson, Arthur – 1987
This study focused on the way mathematics was taught in selected primary school classrooms. The study involved the observation of 21 fourth-grade classes in eight schools over a two-week period. Results indicated a hiatus between what was taught and what should be taught and between how mathematics is taught and how it should be taught.…
Descriptors: Class Activities, Educational Research, Elementary School Mathematics, Foreign Countries
Download full textKaput, James J.; Pattison-Gordon, Laurie – 1987
This document is intended to describe several software learning environments in an order that parallels a reasonable sequence of use by students. It also describes a planned an designed, but not yet implemented, extension of these environments from the discrete to the continuous case. Each of the implemented environments was developed in…
Descriptors: Computer Assisted Instruction, Computer Uses in Education, Courseware, Division
Lampert, Magdalene – 1985
The concept of multiplication is described and illustrated using several different representational systems. A conceptual approach to teaching mathematics is compared with the procedural approach commonly found in the school curriculum. Four different methods of representing the multiplication process with numbers larger than ten are presented:…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Cognitive Processes, Computation, Educational Research
PDF pending restorationQuigley, Martyn, Ed. – 1992
The proceedings report is divided into four sections that include: (1) two invited lectures by Colette Laborde and James Kaput on the topics of students' reading and writing of mathematics and an allegory in which writing is introduced into a technology-based mathematical society; (2) working group reports on the topics of fractal geometry in the…
Descriptors: Chaos Theory, Computer Assisted Instruction, Computers, Constructivism (Learning)
