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Dunlap, William P. – 1980
Described are many concrete readiness activities within ten broad categories that are designed to provide children with a solid foundation for mathematics and that help prevent learning difficulties in mathematics. Preschool mathematical experiences form the foundation for all studies in mathematics. Without a sufficient number of appropriate…
Descriptors: Classification, Cognitive Development, Conservation (Concept), Discovery Learning
Citrus County Board of Public Instruction, Inverness, FL. – 1979
This collection of booklets deals with minumum standards in mathematics for beginning eleventh grade students. There is a statement of the standards with related skills, a test to assess competency with accompanying answer sheet and answer key, and eight booklets presenting problems covered by six of the standards. The booklets cover: percentages;…
Descriptors: Academic Standards, Decimal Fractions, Environmental Education, Fractions
Dissemination and Assessment Center for Bilingual Education, Austin, TX. – 1979
This guide covers the first part of a bilingual, sequential mathematics course. The course integrates culturally relevant situations and illustrations with mathematics to reinforce the student's self-concept and encourage cultural pride. This program may be used as a self-contained continuum, as a supplement to another course of study, for…
Descriptors: Addition, Bilingual Education, Division, Elementary School Mathematics
Verbist, R., Ed.; And Others – Scientia Paedagogiea Experimentalis, 1978
This journal of educational research contains five papers written by a group of international authors. The first is a study of change in professional attitudes of student teachers that investigated the nature and extent of the change in their professional attitudes, and compared sex differences. The second paper is a technical examination of the…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Attitude Change, Educational Objectives
Montgomery County Intermediate Unit 23, Blue Bell, PA. – 1976
The third of nine volumes in the SER-LARS (Special Education Resources Location Analysis and Retrieval System) series, a diagnostic-prescriptive instructional data bank for teachers of handicapped children, presents learning objectives organized by content descriptions. Entries give a history of the use of each objective along with information on…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Diagnostic Teaching, Educational Diagnosis, Elementary Secondary Education
Suydam, Marilyn N.; Dessart, Donald J. – 1976
This booklet was written to provide elementary-school teachers with an overview of some of the research results related to the development of computational skills, together with ideas for classroom activities which have grown out of research projects. The booklet is organized into twelve sections, the first of which is devoted to delineating the…
Descriptors: Algorithms, Arithmetic, Basic Skills, Computation
Saunders, Kevin; And Others – 1978
This Teacher's Guide for first-grade mathematics is an outgrowth of an extended pilot project conducted nationwide between 1973 and 1976. The manner of presentation and the pedagogical ideas and tools are based on the works of Georges and Frederique Papy. They are recognized as having introduced colored arrow drawings ("papygrams") and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Saunders, Kevin; Schweitzer, Janis – 1979
This Teacher's Guide for first-grade mathematics is an outgrowth of an extended pilot project conducted nationwide between 1973 and 1976. The manner of presentation and the pedagogical ideas and tools are based on the works of Georges and Frederique Papy. They are recognized as having introduced colored arrow drawings ("papygrams") and…
Descriptors: Curriculum Development, Curriculum Guides, Early Childhood Education, Elementary School Mathematics
Osborne, R. Travis; Lindsey, James M. – 1965
A total of 125 white children from three counties in Georgia (selected as representative of small rural and medium and large industrial urban populations) were administered a battery of tests in three phases of their schooling: (1) during the summer preceding their admission to the first grade, (2) near the end of the first grade, and (3) near the…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Concept Formation, Elementary School Students, Expressive Language
Baratta-Lorton, Mary – 1975
This booklet contains 43 "workjobs," (experiences in manipulating common objects) adapted from classroom activities, that are appropriate and easy for parents to make and use with children in the home. These manipulative activities are designed to help children develop language and number skills and hand-eye coordination, and give children…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Decision Making Skills, Discovery Processes, Early Childhood Education
Vogt, Elaine E., Ed. – 1971
This volume is the sixteenth in a series of 29 coordinated MINNEMAST units in mathematics and science for kindergarten and the primary grades. Intended for use by second-grade teachers, this unit guide provides a summary and overview of the unit, a list of materials needed, and descriptions of five groups of lessons. The purposes and procedures…
Descriptors: Curriculum Guides, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Science
Dade County Public Schools, Miami, FL. – 1972
The fourth of four quins intended to develop computational skills with non-negative rational numbers through applications to business and industry, this guidebook on minimum course content is designed for the student who has acquired basic computational skills with non-negative rational numbers. Topics include ratio, proportion, and percentage…
Descriptors: Behavioral Objectives, Computation, Curriculum, Decimal Fractions
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Sowder, Judith; Schappelle, Bonnie – Arithmetic Teacher, 1994
Discusses various research findings aimed at helping teachers provide a classroom climate which leads students to develop better number sense. Focuses on number and symbol meaning, including number size, place value, and fractions, as well as computation and computational estimation. (MKR)
Descriptors: Classroom Environment, Cognitive Development, Computation, Discussion (Teaching Technique)
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Markovits, Zvia; Sowder, Judith – Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 1994
Examined the effects of intervention in the instruction of 12 male seventh-grade students for the purpose of developing number sense. Results indicate that after instruction students were more likely to use strategies to solve number magnitude, mental computation, and computational estimation problems that reflected number sense. (Contains 50…
Descriptors: Cognitive Development, Cognitive Style, Computation, Estimation (Mathematics)
Ciancone, Thomas – 1991
This annotated bibliography profiles 27 print publications about and for adults whose mathematics skills are below the eighth-grade level. Entries describing the following materials are presented: 5 handbooks/guides (including an introduction to numeracy teaching, adult numeracy training pack, and manual for teaching place value); 2 publications…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Adult Basic Education, Annotated Bibliographies, Arithmetic
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