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Direct linkAlbarracín, 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
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
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
Download full textSuh, 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
Gersten, Russell; Schumacher, Robin F.; Jordan, Nancy C. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2017
Magnitude understanding is critical for students to develop a deep understanding of fractions and more advanced mathematics curriculum. The research reports in this special issue underscore magnitude understanding for fractions and emphasize number lines as both an assessment and an instructional tool. In this commentary, we discuss how number…
Descriptors: Numbers, Number Systems, Fractions, Mathematical Models
Saadati, Farzaneh; Cerda, Gamal; Giaconi, Valentina; Reyes, Cristian; Felmer, Patricio – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2019
This study was designed to examine predictors of instructional beliefs related to problem solving that influence mathematics in-service teachers' practices in the Chilean context. A total of 713 in-service mathematics teachers from various elementary schools participated in the survey study during 2015 and 2016. Results showed that teachers'…
Descriptors: Mathematical Models, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Teachers
Bleiler-Baxter, Sarah K.; Stephens, D. Christopher; Baxter, Wesley A.; Barlow, Angela T. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2017
The goal in this article is to support teachers in better understanding what it means to model with mathematics by focusing on three key decision-making processes: Simplification, Relationship Mapping, and Situation Analysis. The authors use the Theme Park task to help teachers develop a vision of how students engage in these three decision-making…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Decision Making, Teaching Methods, Elementary School Mathematics
Turner, Erin E.; Aguirre, Julia; McDuffie, Amy Roth; Foote, Mary Q. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2019
Mathematical modeling is a high-leverage topic, critical STEM education and civic engagement. This study investigates culturally responsive, school and community-based approaches that support mathematical modeling with elementary students. Specifically, we analyzed two modeling lessons in one fifth grade classroom, with a focus on how students…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Culturally Relevant Education, Elementary School Students
Meikle, Erin M. – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2016
Many teachers are using the Five Practices model to guide them in orchestrating whole-class mathematics discussions that focus on understanding: (1) anticipate an array of possible student-generated solution strategies to a mathematical task before implementing the lesson; (2) monitor students' work as they grapple with the task; (3) select a…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Methods Courses, Elementary School Mathematics
Ding, Meixia – Teaching Children Mathematics, 2018
Tape diagrams, also known as strip diagrams, bar models, fraction strips, or length models, are linear representations that can be used to effectively model quantitative relationships during problem solving. Tape diagrams are a powerful model recommended by the Common Core, but they are relatively new to teachers and students in the United States.…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Grade 2
Day, Lorraine; Hurrell, Derek – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2015
Lorraine Day and Derek Hurrell provide a convincing argument for using arrays to promote students' understandings of mental computation strategies for multiplication. They also provide a range of different examples that illustrate the benefits of arrays in the primary classroom.
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematical Concepts, Computation
Paolucci, Catherine; Wessels, Helena – Journal of Teacher Education, 2017
This study examined preservice teachers' (PSTs) capacity to create mathematical modeling problems (MMPs) for grades 1 to 3. PSTs created MMPs for their choice of grade level and aligned the mathematical content of their MMPs with the relevant mathematics curriculum. PSTs were given criteria adapted from Galbraith's MMP design principles to guide…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematical Models, Elementary School Mathematics, Questioning Techniques
Bao, Lei – Australian Primary Mathematics Classroom, 2016
The aim of this study is to investigate whether the model method is effective to assist primary students to solve word problems. The model method not only provides students with an opportunity to interpret the problem by drawing the rectangular bar but also helps students to visually represent problem situations and relevant relationships on the…
Descriptors: Word Problems (Mathematics), Problem Solving, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematics Education
Wickstrom, Megan H. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2017
This article is a report on a teacher study group that focused on three elementary teachers' perceptions of mathematical modeling in contrast to typical mathematics instruction. Through the theoretical lens of figured worlds, I discuss how mathematics instruction was conceptualized across the classrooms in terms of artifacts, discourse, and…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Models, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers
