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Dot Card Number Talks: Illustrating Counting Strategies With Preservice Elementary Teachers, Robert Knurek
Dot Card Number Talks: Illustrating Counting Strategies With Preservice Elementary Teachers, Robert Knurek
Colorado Mathematics Teacher
A dot card number talk was implemented in a mathematics content course with preservice elementary teachers (PsETs) to highlight counting strategies that are commonly seen in elementary school mathematics. PsETs' sketches on the dot cards showcase many different strategies, such as counting-all, counting-on, matching, and subitizing. While their illustrations demonstrated these different strategies, their answers were ultimately the same. The dot card number talk sparked meaningful conversations and helped PsETs distinguish between the counting strategies.
Benefits Of One-On-One Prescriptive Reading Tutoring To An Elementary Student, Jewel Mahoe
Benefits Of One-On-One Prescriptive Reading Tutoring To An Elementary Student, Jewel Mahoe
Ursidae: The Undergraduate Research Journal at the University of Northern Colorado
Many struggling readers at the elementary level benefit from additional tutoring to meet grade level standards. The purpose of this research is to evaluate the effectiveness of a one-on-one, prescriptive tutoring program designed to increase the reading abilities of an elementary student. This study seeks to identify the benefits of individualized tutoring to an elementary student identified as in need of additional support in reading. This study presents data regarding the tutoring of a female participant in the fourth grade, over ten, hour-long sessions from October to December of 2016. The prescriptive tutoring sessions were designed using results from a …