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Direct linkSealey, Vicki; Engelke, Nicole – MathAMATYC Educator, 2012
The great gorilla jump is an activity designed to allow calculus students to construct an understanding of the structure of the Riemann sum and definite integral. The activity uses the ideas of position, velocity, and time to allow students to explore familiar ideas in a new way. Our research has shown that introducing the definite integral as…
Descriptors: Calculus, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Activities, Problem Solving
Peer reviewedKouba, Vicky L. – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1989
Classifies children's solution strategies by degree of abstraction and by use of physical objects. Children in grades one, two, and three were given two multiplication and four division word problems that differed in semantic structure. (Author/YP)
Descriptors: Division, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Mathematics Achievement
