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Direct linkKandel, Matthew – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2023
The mathematical modeling process is also a powerful way to teach students the meaning of data. In mathematical modeling, students are collecting data to answer a question. Data collection is the means to an end and not the end in itself. The author was looking for an engaging way to introduce his third-grade mathematics class to the skill of…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 3
Download full textKym Fry; Judith Hillman; Rhonda Horne; Elizabeth Rasmussen – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2024
The revised Australian curriculum presents a new emphasis in primary schools on the process of Mathematical Modelling. A modelling focus brings close attention to confidence and capability with a potentially new problem-solving process, associated language, and pedagogical processes. This paper presents a Year 4 classroom modelling experience that…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction
Robert Schoen; Wendy Bray; Claire Riddell; Charity Buntin; Naomi Iuhasz-Velez; Walter Secada; Eva Yujia Li – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 2024
Studies have found that some teacher professional development programs that are based on Cognitively Guided Instruction (CGI) can increase student mathematics achievement. The mechanism through which those effects are realized has been theorized, but more empirical study is needed. In service of this need, we designed a novel measure of…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Cognitive Development, Professional Development Schools
Erin E. Turner; Amy Been Bennett; Monica Granillo; Nishaan Ponnuru; Amy Roth Mcduffie; Mary Q. Foote; Julia M. Aguirre; Elzena McVicar – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2024
Mathematical modeling is a high-leverage topic; it is critical to students' participation in STEM education and supports civic engagement. Until recently, research on modeling at the elementary level has been underemphasized, particularly research on supports and challenges for teachers who engage in designing authentic modeling tasks. In this…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Instructional Design, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models
Erin Turner; Mary Alice Carlson; Julia Aguirre; Jennifer Suh; Jonathan Brown; Mary Greene; Elzena McVicar – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2023
There is growing recognition that mathematical modeling can be a lever for equity in elementary mathematics classrooms. This study focuses on the impact of a professional development program focused on culturally responsive mathematical modeling on 8 kindergarten through 2nd grade teachers' practices in modeling lessons. We use a project developed…
Descriptors: Culturally Relevant Education, Educational Practices, Mathematical Models, Kindergarten
Eskelson, Samuel L.; Townsend, Brian E.; Hughes, Elizabeth K. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2021
In this article, the authors describe their experiences with planning, implementing, and revising a lesson for which the goal is for students to consider the mathematical and pragmatic issues that are related to a task of maximizing the area for a fixed perimeter. The authors also wanted students to engage in the Standards for Mathematical…
Descriptors: Geometric Concepts, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Middle School Mathematics
Albarracín, Lluís – Early Childhood Education Journal, 2021
This study presents a teaching experiment in which second-grade primary school students compared a city and a town according to population estimates. The activities were presented to them as Fermi problems and required an analysis of the reality to identify sub-problems that students could deal with. The students' products were analyzed from the…
Descriptors: Grade 2, Elementary School Students, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models
Laura M. Singletary; Julie Russell; AnnaMarie Conner; Jonathan Foster; Yuling Zhuang; Hyejin Park – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2024
When examining students' participation in these mathematics discussions, the focus is on their verbal contributions. However, students' nonverbal contributions--such as pointing, drawings, and models-- can be crucial resources for advancing the mathematical thinking and the collective activity of a classroom community (Johnson et al., 2023; Webb…
Descriptors: Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students, Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Students
Hansen, Ragnhild – Mathematics Education Research Journal, 2022
In this study, we aim to explain choices that groups of preservice teachers made to implement modelling tasks in primary school. We found that the preservice teachers decided to facilitate everyday-inspired contexts for the tasks and that this could be explained by their reasoning that modelling is supposed to be an activity close to reality.…
Descriptors: Decision Making, Preservice Teachers, Mathematical Models, Mathematics Instruction
Segura, Carlos; Ferrando, Irene – Education Sciences, 2021
Fermi problems are useful for introducing modelling in primary school classrooms, although teachers' difficulties in problem solving may hinder their successful implementation. These difficulties are associated with the modelling process, but also with the estimation and measurement skills required by Fermi problems. In this work, a specific…
Descriptors: Error Patterns, Problem Solving, Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Haara, Frode Olav – European Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2022
This article reports on how a pedagogical entrepreneurship approach combined with fundamental elements of mathematical modelling may be used to strengthen students' development of mathematical literacy in upper primary school. This is done first through a review of the relationship between pedagogical entrepreneurship in mathematics, mathematical…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Entrepreneurship, Mathematics Instruction, Knowledge Level
Rasmussen, Chris; Dunmyre, Justin; Fortune, Nicholas; Keene, Karen – PRIMUS, 2019
This article provides an overview of a modeling sequence that culminates in student reinvention of a bifurcation diagram. The sequence is the result of years of classroom-based research and curriculum development grounded in the instructional design theory of Realistic Mathematics Education. The sequence of modeling tasks and examples of student…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Teaching Methods, Mathematics Instruction, Inquiry
Ding, Meixia; Chen, Wei; Hassler, Ryan Scott – Mathematical Thinking and Learning: An International Journal, 2019
Linear quantity models such as pre-tapes, tape diagrams, and number line diagrams have drawn increasing attention in mathematics education around the world. However, we still know relatively little about how teachers actually use these models in the classroom. This study explores how exemplary US and Chinese elementary teachers use linear quantity…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Foreign Countries, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics
Suh, Jennifer M.; Turner, Erin; Anhalt, Cynthia; Carlson, Mary Alice; Wickstrom, Megan; McDuffie, Amy Roth; Aguirre, Julia; Osana, Helena P.; Seshaiyer, Padmanabhan; Matson, Kathleen; Gallagher, Melissa A.; Birkhead, Sara; Bennett, Amy Been; Yanisko, Emily; Lee, Dong Hwan – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
This working group will engage PMENA members to better understanding the nature of mathematical modeling in the early grades while considering the student perspective and recognizing the importance of teachers knowing their students and the contexts that are meaningful to their students. We will investigate how PK-6 teachers demonstrate the…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Leavy, Aisling; Hourigan, Mairead – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
Classroom data modeling involves posing questions, identifying attributes of phenomena, measuring and structuring these attributes, and then composing, revising, and communicating the outcomes. Selecting attributes is a fundamental component of data modeling, and the considerations made when selecting attributes is the focus of this paper. A…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Teacher Educators, Preservice Teachers, Young Children
