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Kosko, Karl W. – Mathematics Teacher: Learning and Teaching PK-12, 2020
Developing multiplicative reasoning is an important milestone for elementary school students, which influences their learning of later mathematical concepts (Hackenberg and Tillema 2009). For children to conceptually understand multiplication, one should move beyond merely counting by ones to dealing with composites (twos, fives, etc.) and other…
Descriptors: Multiplication, Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Thinking Skills
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Anderson-Pence, Katie L.; Moyer-Packenham, Patricia S.; Westenskow, Arla; Shumway, Jessica; Jordan, Kerry – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2014
The purpose of this study was to deconstruct the relationship between visual static models and students' written solutions to fraction problems using a large sample of students' solutions. Participants in the study included 162 third-grade and 209 fourth-grade students from 17 different classrooms. Students' written responses to open-ended tasks…
Descriptors: Mathematics, Models, Visual Aids, Problem Solving
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Nesset, Valerie – Information Research: An International Electronic Journal, 2015
Introduction: As part of a larger study in 2006 of the information-seeking behaviour of third-grade students in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, a model of their information-seeking behaviour was developed. To further improve the model, an extensive examination of the literature into information-seeking behaviour and information literacy was conducted…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Grade 3, Information Seeking, Literacy Education