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Jina Chang; Joonhyeong Park; Kok-Sing Tang; David F. Treagust; Mihye Won – Journal of the Learning Sciences, 2024
Background: To support collaborative drawing, it is essential to investigate how students make collaborative drawings and how these contribute to elaborating their ideas. This study examines how 5th and 6th grade students' group drawings contributed to increased levels of explanations of their drawings about sound transmission. Methods: We…
Descriptors: Cooperative Learning, Freehand Drawing, Scientific Concepts, Science Education
Cutting, Chelsea – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2021
Young children are capable of engaging with ratio, measurement and operator meanings of fractions earlier than many national curriculum standards indicate, yet current trends in children's understanding of fractions in Australia, remain weak. Research suggests that spatial reasoning can positively influence mathematical knowledge; however, the…
Descriptors: Spatial Ability, Visualization, Nonverbal Communication, Fractions
Wright, Vince – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2016
Visual and analytic strategies are features of students' schemes for spatial tasks. The strategies used by six students to anticipate the folding of nets were investigated. Evidence suggested that visual and analytic strategies were strongly connected in competent performance.
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 6, Mathematical Concepts, Spatial Ability
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West, John – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
In this article, John West explores student misconceptions relating to division. A range of activities that promote the understanding of divisibility rules are provided.
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Mathematics, Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics
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Wilkie, Karina J. – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2014
Karina Wilkie discusses functional thinking in the primary classroom. She provides a useful learning progression with sample responses to a growing pattern task.
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction, Algebra, Teaching Methods
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Chamorro-Koc, Marianella; Scott, Andrew; Coombs, Gretchen – Design and Technology Education, 2015
In design studio, sketching or visual thinking is part of processes that assist students to achieve final design solutions. At Queensland University of Technology's (QUT's) First and Third Year industrial design studio classes we engage in a variety of teaching pedagogies from which we identify "Concept Bombs" as instrumental in the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Design, Visualization, Freehand Drawing
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Geelan, David; Mukherjee, Michelle; Martin, Brian – Teaching Science, 2012
A quantitative, quasi-experimental study of the effectiveness of computer-based scientific visualizations for concept learning on the part of Year 11 physics students (n = 80) was conducted in six Queensland high school classrooms. Students' gender and academic ability were also considered as factors in relation to the effectiveness of teaching…
Descriptors: Academic Ability, Academic Achievement, Physics, Foreign Countries
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Jacobbe, Tim – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2008
According to the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) (1989, 2000), students at all levels should be exposed to geometry and measurement topics. Standards documents have identified the importance of primary school students selecting appropriate units for measurements in one- and two-dimensional space (NCTM 1989, 2000). This paper…
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Geometry, Measurement
Chick, Helen L., Ed.; Vincent, Jill L., Ed. – International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2005
The first volume of the 29th annual conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education contains plenary lecture and research forum papers as listed below. Short oral communications papers, poster presentations, brief summaries of discussion groups, and working sessions are also included in the volume. The plenary…
Descriptors: Educational Theories, Elementary School Mathematics, Semiotics, Mathematics Education