A strong foundation in early number concepts is crucial for students' future success in statistics. Despite its importance in statistics, many first-year students struggle to comprehend the normal distribution due to a lack of basic number sense. Students get confused about the order and magnitude of negative z-scores on a standard normal curve or…

To understand the concepts or principles in mathematics, children who have a concrete operational stage need physical objects that can bridge abstract concepts in mathematics. This research aims to evaluate the influence of coastal contextual learning media on a child's understanding concept in the material of numbers counting operation. This…

"Improving Mathematics in the Early Years and Key Stage 1" reviews the best available evidence to offer five recommendations for developing the maths skills of 3-7-year olds. Recommendations include integrating maths into different activities throughout the day -- for example, at registration and snack time -- to familiarise children…

The development of proportional reasoning is a major focus of the middle grades curriculum. The challenge for educators is to find contexts that engage students and that facilitate the study of proportional reasoning. This chapter explores proportional thinking with students in grades 3-8 by using a number of books in which the underlying stories…

Several problems are identified: place values, time, even numbers, fractional parts, and temperature. Specific teaching suggestions are discussed. (MP)

The article suggests that Belcastro rods, which retain the basic properties of Cuisenaire rods but allow instant identification by touch, may be useful in teaching mathematical concepts to blind children. Drawings illustrate use of the rods in teaching such concepts as addition and subtraction. (Author/DB)

This workbook for children was prepared especially to accompany the level 1 Micronesian Mathematics Program Teacher's Guide. It is to be used to check whether children have learned concepts taught by activities and activity cards. Work is provided for such concepts as color recognition, categorizing, counting, ordering, numeration, contrasting,…

This booklet develops the theme that young children best learn mathematics through exploration of their environment. Several activities designed to promote the learning of concepts about space, numbers, and measurement are illustrated. Also discussed is the role of the teacher in sequencing instruction, selecting materials, and maintaining the…

Shares a coded version of the number line to provide concrete experiences for learning abstract concepts. Using the fundamental theorem of arithmetic, appropriate coded symbols are determined for the prime factorization of each natural number and used to study the concepts of greatest common divisor, least common multiple, square roots, and…

The project, consisting of five experiments, attempted to develop remedial procedures and materials for retarded children with learning deficits in the area of arithmetic. Standardized training procedures were devised to facilitate development of operations (conservation, ordination, cardination, and classification) which J. Piaget describes as…

Describes a low-tech, hands-on activity to improve student understanding of irrational numbers. Each student creates a number line from adding machine tapes and uses a square and a precisely folded triangle as the only measuring device. (KHR)

The annotated bibliography contains approximately 71 listings of instructional materials for Head Start teachers serving handicapped children. Teachers using the bibliography are advised to think first in terms of instructional requirements rather than the handicapping condition of the child. Materials are listed in terms of the following…

Instructions for using and constructing approximately 58 instructional materials to aid young visually handicapped children in developing basic sensory concepts are presented. The materials are said to foster important ideas in variously aged children who have difficulty using their hands or understanding numerical concepts. Use of the materials…

A project conducted several years ago to develop informal mathematical learning experiences at kindergarten level is compared with the results of the work-book type (formal) program being used at that time. It is hypothesized that kindergarten pupils who study mathematical concepts in a planned, sequential, systematic, but non-workbook (informal)…

Based on suggestions of participants at the second annual Instructional Methods Forum held in June 1989, the monograph considers cognitive-based approaches to teaching mathematics to students with learning problems and the implications for the design of media and materials. It discusses characteristics of successful cognitive approaches and the…