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Direct linkNational Council of Teachers of Mathematics, 2025
Students learn mathematics best when they actively explore problems, connect solution methods, and synthesize ideas at just the right moment. Yet in many classrooms, this balance tips too quickly toward telling students how to solve problems, leaving less room for them to do the real mathematical work. "Teaching Mathematics Through Problem…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Problem Solving, Teaching Methods, Elementary Schools
Peer reviewedSriyanti Mustafa; Rika Riana; Baharullah Baharullah; Khadijah Maming – Open Education Studies, 2024
This study aims to explore the effectiveness of collaboration between the Teaching at the Right Level (TaRL) approach and the problem-based learning (PBL) model in improving student learning outcomes at junior high school and senior high school levels. TaRL is a method that emphasizes learning tailored to students' individual ability levels, while…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Cooperation, Middle Schools, High Schools
Boncukçu, Gökçe; Gök, Gülsüm – Science Activities: Projects and Curriculum Ideas in STEM Classrooms, 2023
A problem-based learning activity focusing on the human impact on the environment and the importance of sustainable development is presented. The activity revolves around a mysterious island where the civilization is on the blink of extinction, prompting students to investigate how human behavior, ecosystems, resources, and natural balance…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Sustainability, Conservation (Environment), Environmental Education
Van de Walle, John A.; Karp, Karen S.; Bay-Williams, Jennifer M. – Pearson, 2022
"Elementary and Middle School Mathematics" illustrates how children in PreK to 8th grade learn math, and then shows the most effective methods of teaching math using problem-based activities. Examples of real student work and common challenges help you visualize developmentally appropriate mathematics instruction and assessment that…
Descriptors: Preschool Education, Elementary Education, Middle Schools, Mathematics Instruction
Christensen, Shane W. – ProQuest LLC, 2019
Problem: Several reviews of literature have been completed to formalize the PBL approach (Alacapinar, 2008; Baines & DeBarger, 2017; Bell, 2010; Blumenfeld et al., 1991; Condliffe et al., 2017; English, 2013; Holm, 2011; Holmes, 2012; Kokotsaki et al., 2016; Krajcik & Blumenfeld, 2006; Lam, Cheng, & Choy, 2010; Lee et al., 2014;…
Descriptors: Middle Schools, Principals, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods
Download full textRenzulli, Joseph S.; Waicunas, Nicole – International Journal for Talent Development and Creativity, 2018
One of the biggest challenges facing gifted education is how to balance the need to provide students with enrichment opportunities within the context of an overly prescribed or required curriculum. The emergence of standards in individual states and the new Common Core State Standards coupled with the almost overpowering influence of standardized…
Descriptors: Gifted Education, Enrichment Activities, Educational Strategies, Curriculum
Merritt, Joi; Lee, Mi Yeon; Rillero, Peter; Kinach, Barbara M. – Interdisciplinary Journal of Problem-based Learning, 2017
This systematic literature review was conducted to explore the effectiveness of problem-based and project-based learning (PBL) implemented with students in early elementary to grade 8 (ages 3-14) in mathematics and science classrooms. Nine studies met the following inclusion criteria: (a) focus on PBL, (b) experimental study, (c) kindergarten to…
Descriptors: Problem Based Learning, Active Learning, Student Projects, Instructional Effectiveness
Chen, Chin-Sung; Lin, Jing-Wen – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This study explored how a 2-year, maker-centered science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) project-based learning (M-STEM-PjBL) curriculum aimed at leading students to be makers changed students, science teachers, and a rural middle school in Taiwan, where teachers were stressed due to the low birth rate and low grades in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Action Research, Shared Resources and Services, STEM Education
Holm, Jennifer, Ed.; Mathieu-Soucy, Sarah, Ed. – Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group, 2020
The 43rd meeting of Canadian Mathematics Education Study Group (CMESG) was held at St. Francis Xavier University in Antigonish, Nova Scotia (May 31-June 4, 2019). This meeting marked only the third time CMESG/GCEDM (Groupe Canadien d'Étude en Didactique des Mathématiques) had been held in Nova Scotia (1996, 2003), and the first time it had been…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Problem Based Learning, Teaching Methods, Postsecondary Education
Carmo, Mafalda, Ed. – Online Submission, 2017
This book contains a compilation of papers presented at the International Conference on Education and New Developments (END 2017), organized by the World Institute for Advanced Research and Science (W.I.A.R.S.). Education, in our contemporary world, is a right since we are born. Every experience has a formative effect on the constitution of the…
Descriptors: Educational Quality, Models, Vocational Education, Outcomes of Education
