Researchers have demonstrated that cognitive-behavioral intervention strategies--such as social problem solving--provided in school settings can help ameliorate the developmental risk for emotional and behavioral difficulties. In this study, we report the results of a randomized controlled trial of Tools for Getting Along (TFGA), a social…

The overall purpose of this study is to develop a measure of elementary mathematics teachers' curricular knowledge (Shulman, 1986) and curriculum use practices. In this paper, we present the first step in this larger effort--the piloting of one set of questions that document pre-service teachers' (PSTs') knowledge and practices for reading,…

The purpose of this study was to explore word problems as a subject matter in mathematics textbook curricula. The motivation for the study derived from the following evidence: (a) American students find some word problems are more difficult than others (Garcia, Jimenez, & Hess, 2006; Riley & Green, 1988; Stern, 2001), and (b) one of the…

Five reasons are discussed for teaching estimation involving utility, problem solving, concept formation, calculations, and attitude. Specific types of estimation are analyzed and examples given. (MP)

Productive thinking, problem solving, and strategies for coping, learning, and living are all part of the ZING curriculum for emotionally disturbed and/or learning disabled students in grades 6, 7, and 8. (Author/SBH)

This article considers three ways to incorporate active learning in the exploration of mathematics: organizing centers, open-ended tasks, and the solving of good problems. (MP)

Activities related to content areas important to the primary mathematics program, but outside the scope of arithmetic, geometry and measurement, are presented. Topics include relations, number sentences, solving sentences, logic, probability, statistics, number theory, and the system of integers, Inclusion of these topics is justified and…

Advances the thesis that philosophical questioning should precede or accompany children's participation in science activities in the elementary grades. (CP)

The nature of measurement, the standard measurement concepts are discussed in terms of children's preconceptions and activities for building measurement concepts through primary school instruction. A broad range of activities including counting, computation, calibration, and relating measure to size is presented. The metric system is briefly…

Using a great variety of word problems drawn from many contexts can make multiplication and division rules more relevant to the student's needs. (SD)

Studies young children's designs in an early years design, make, and appraise (DMA) classroom. Examines several issues including the connection between designing and making, the purpose of drawing for young children, children's understanding of the design process, types of images used by young children, and children's attitudes toward designing…

The University of Tulsa (Oklahoma) School for Gifted Children is a full school program for able learners ages 3-12. The school is the only one in the nation to use a curriculum based on Enaction Theory which postulates that thinking is a matter of running a simulation in one's head and involves three steps: (1) creating a mental model, (2)…

Sixteen investigations using 32 third graders, 286 fourth graders, 183 fifth graders, and 343 sixth graders, were undertaken to determine table-using proficiencies. The data indicate that: (1) upper elementary students are able to retrieve information accurately and quickly from noncomplex numerical tables over a wide range of levels of tabular…

This guide is organized around six concepts: sets, numbers and numeration; operations, their properties and number theory; relations and functions; geometry; measurement; and probability and statistics. Objectives and sample activities are presented for each concept. Separate sections deal with the processes of problem solving and computation. A…

To ascertain if children's use of manipulatives and/or the teacher's presentation of the problem in parts (chunking) affect children's ability to model and/or solve addition and/or subtraction problems, 146 first-grade subjects were administered the Houston Addition and Subtraction Problem-Solving Test which provided accuracy and modeling scores…