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Baroody, Arthur J. – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
Ginsburg (1977) observed that children typically develop surprisingly powerful informal (everyday) knowledge of mathematics and that mathematical learning difficulties often arise when formal instruction does not build on this existing knowledge. By using meaningful analogies teachers can help connect new formal instruction to students' existing…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Teaching Methods, Logical Thinking, Numbers
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Tobia, Jennifer M.; Wessman-Enzinger, Nicole M.; Olanoff, Dana – Research in Mathematics Education, 2018
The study reported on in this chapter describes the justifications that elementary and middle school prospective teachers (PTs) made as they examined the temperature story that a Grade 5 student posed for an integer subtraction number sentence. The ways that the PTs made sense of the student's story that used integer subtraction as distance are…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction
Suydam, Marilyn N., Ed.; Kasten, Margaret L., Ed. – Investigations in Mathematics Education, 1984
An editorial and abstracts for 12 research reports are contained in this issue. The editorial by Robert E. Reys focuses on the dangers of publishing poor research. The abstracts, each with a critique, concern research on a game for logical reasoning, wait-time and sex differences, vocabulary instruction on ratio and proportion, male-female…
Descriptors: Addition, Cognitive Style, Computation, Editorials