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From Logical Causations to Likely Connections
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Tuohilampi, Laura; Nieminen, Juuso Henrik; Beswick, Kim – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2023
When a Year 7 student physically reacted to a prompt of another student by anxiously drumming the desk with his ruler, exclaiming "uuuuhh", the initial thought of the observing researcher, Laura, was: "this is an interesting account". This started a reflective journey of first applying robust research methodologies to the…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Problem Solving, Grade 7, Researchers
Good-Enough Understanding: Theorising about the Learning of Complex Ideas (Part 1)
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Zack, Vicki; Reid, David A. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2003
Vicki Zack, a classroom teacher and researcher, returned to the fifth grade classroom in 1989 after more than a decade of teaching in a university faculty of education in order to teach in the changing ecologies of classrooms (with problem-solving approaches in mathematics and literature-based approaches in reading) and to research from the…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques
Good-Enough Understanding: Theorising about the Learning of Complex Ideas (Part 2)
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Zack, Vicki; Reid, David A. – For the Learning of Mathematics, 2004
In part 1 of this article Zack and Reid offered two examples of students operating with good-enough understandings in mathematics, and related their understandings to features of good-enough understanding identified by Mackey (I997) in the context of reading. Mackey contends that the ability to read further, on the basis of a very imperfect…
Descriptors: Grade 5, Teaching Experience, Teaching Methods, Classroom Techniques