Using research in teaching: Research suggestions: Use of time in teaching elementary school mathematics

1971 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-179
Author(s):  
C. Alan Riedesel
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Use Of Time ◽  
Teaching Research ◽  
Teaching Time

Each time a new topic is introduced in elementary school mathematics, the teacher is faced with a number of questions concerning the approach, sequence, and materials that should be used. Suggestions from resea rch are often available for aid in answering these specific questions. Also a number of qu estions concerning use of time, organization, and approach are pertinent to improving the teaching of the majority of topics in elementary school mathematics. The material th at follows poses several questions concerned with use of teaching time for elementary school mathematics instruction and gives uggestions from research for each question.

Editorial comment: As we read

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 167-168
Author(s):  
James E. Inskeep
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Editorial Comment ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Primary Objective ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Creative Behavior ◽  
New Challenges

Fascinating to some and frightening to others, the computer has emerged from its infancy to become a gangling adolescent with a voracious appetite for new challenges! And yet, the computer offers wonderful possibilities to free men from routine and release them to genuinely creative behavior. For years a primary objective of elementary school mathematics instruction was to make “computers” of persons. The application of the computer should now permit us to make “persons” out of persons in our curriculum. This month's issue of The Arithmetic Teacher features articles dealing with the computer, its use in mathematics education, and its significance for the classroom.

Wanted—your comments

1968 ◽  
Vol 15 (5) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
C. Alan Riedesel
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Classroom Teachers ◽  
Limited Time ◽  
Research Information ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Dissemination Of Research ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Statistical Background

This month we should like to raise a question concerning the dissemination of research information: How can information concerned with elementary school mathematics instruction be most effectively developed so that classroom teachers and others with limited time and statistical background can make use of research findings on specific topics?

Research on elementary school mathematics—1962

1963 ◽  
Vol 10 (5) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
J. Fred Weaver
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Specific Data ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics

The references included in this 1962 listing embrace (1) normative and experimental studies which report specific data or findings on a problem associated with or closely related to mathematics instruction in the elementary school, and (2) bibliographies, summaries, and critical discussions which relate significantly to such normative and experimental studies.

A Districtwide Study of Automaticity When Included in Concept-Based Elementary School Mathematics Instruction

2017 ◽  
Vol 117 (6) ◽  
pp. 259-268
Author(s):  
Daniel McGee ◽  
Patrick Richardson ◽  
Meredith Brewer ◽  
Funda Gonulates ◽  
Theodore Hodgson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics

Developmental Algorithms Have a Place in Elementary School Mathematics Instruction

1989 ◽  
Vol 36 (5) ◽  
pp. 14-16
Author(s):  
George M. A. Stanic ◽  
William D. McKillip
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Developmental Period ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
National Council ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Standard Algorithm ◽  
Concrete Materials ◽  
Mathematical Sciences

Perhaps the two most neglected elements of elementary school mathematics instruction are getting children ready for the formal introduction of a concept or skill and giving students the opportunity to develop an understanding of the concept or skill before mastery is expected. Both of these elements—readiness and development—have been given too little time in the classroom. This article deals with one aspect of the developmental period—the use of developmental algorithms to teach a rithmetic skills. During the developmental period in teaching children arithmetic skills, children make the transition from using concrete materials to using a standard algorithm. Given the changes taking place in elementary school mathematics instruction due to calls for the increased use of calculators and computers (e.g., Conference Board of the Mathematical Sciences [1975]; National Council of Teachers of Mathematics [1980]), we need to ask whether developmental algorithms are helpful or unnecessarily confusing for children.

Topics for research studies in elementary school mathematics

1967 ◽  
Vol 14 (8) ◽  
pp. 679-683
Author(s):  
C. Alan Riedesel ◽  
Len Pikaart
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Research Evidence ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
The Past ◽  
Mathematics Educators ◽  
Research Studies

The past decade has been a time of unprecedented change in elementary school mathematics. During this period the thinking of teachers, mathematics educators, and mathematicians was tapped to develop new mathematics programs for the elementary school. This is still in process and hopefully will continue. The major thrust of this movement has been to improve the content of school mathematics and to teach more mathematics in better ways to more children. Now there is a need to give increased attention to obtaining research evidence concerning the overall improvement of mathematics instruction.

Calculators in Elementary School Mathematics Instruction

1995 ◽  
Vol 95 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-18
Author(s):  
Virginia E. Usnick ◽  
Patricia Lamphere ◽  
George W. Bright
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics

Research findings applicable in the classroom

1969 ◽  
Vol 16 (8) ◽  
pp. 640-642
Author(s):  
Marilyn N. Suydam ◽  
C. Alan Riedesel
Keyword(s):  
Elementary School ◽  
Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Elementary Mathematics ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Elementary School Mathematics ◽  
Research Findings ◽  
Elementary Mathematics Instruction ◽  
Use Of Research

Teachers, administrators, textbook authors, and textbook editors often discuss the role of research in elementary mathematics instruction. Usually one of two dichotomous views is brought forth. Either they express the view that there has been little or no valid and important researchor they state that the findings of research are being used daily in their work. Probably the actual status of the use of research in the teaching of elementary school mathematics is somewhere between these poles.

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