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Blab: Changing The Way That We Look At Students, Robert Bonner Jun 2015

Blab: Changing The Way That We Look At Students, Robert Bonner

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Educational labels frequently impede student success rather than empower student success, as the labels become the defining attributes of each student and define the expectations of student failure or success. The classroom teacher must adopt a new paradigm that focuses on the whole child rather than on an educational label. The BLAB paradigm emphasizes that each child must be considered on the basis of social, educational, familial, & cultural heritages (B); proficiencies in English language and academic language recognizing that all students are on a continuum of language development in both dimensions (L); academic abilities that can differ from one …


Preservice Teachers' Temperature Stories For Integer Addition And Subtraction, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, Jennifer M. Tobias Jan 2015

Preservice Teachers' Temperature Stories For Integer Addition And Subtraction, Nicole Wessman-Enzinger, Jennifer M. Tobias

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Ninety-eight elementary and middle school preservice teachers posed eight stories for integer addition and subtraction number sentences. Stories that were posed about temperature were analysed using a modified Marthe‘s (1979) framework for integer problem types. This framework was modified based on the stories provided by the preservice teachers. This paper reports on the problem types utilized by the preservice teachers. Results highlight that preservice teachers do not frequently use some problem types. Also, results may indicate that some number sentence types (e.g., -23 – -5=☐) support different problem types (e.g., State-State-Translation).


International Integer Curriculum Comparison, Laura Bofferding, Nicole Enzinger Jan 2015

International Integer Curriculum Comparison, Laura Bofferding, Nicole Enzinger

Faculty Publications - College of Education

A discussion group met and discussed the current state of research in the domain of integers at the joint PME 38 and PME-NA 36 meetings (Bofferding, Wessman- Enzinger, Gallardo, Salinas, & Peled, 2014). During these meetings productive discussion revolved around what it meant to understand integers. Additionally, the organisers presented a literature review of the research on integers from all of the PME and PME-NA proceedings, which the group discussed. At the conclusion of this meeting, the group expressed interest in investigating integers further together by pursuing an international curriculum comparison study. This working group aims to begin this curriculum …


Leveraging Different Perspectives To Explore Student Thinking About Integer Addition And Subtraction, Nicole Enzinger, Laura Bofferding Jan 2015

Leveraging Different Perspectives To Explore Student Thinking About Integer Addition And Subtraction, Nicole Enzinger, Laura Bofferding

Faculty Publications - College of Education

This is the third meeting of a working group on student thinking about integers. The main goal of this working group includes utilizing different theoretical perspectives and methodologies in small groups to design complementary studies, where student thinking about integer addition and subtraction will be explored. This working group aims to provide a space for participants to capitalize on their differences in theoretical perspectives and methodologies to promote productive scholarly discussion about the same research topic, student thinking about integer addition and subtraction. Participants will actively engage in work that progresses towards these studies, with the intent to develop a …


Alice's Drawings For Integer Addition And Subtraction Open Number Sentences, Nicole Enzinger Jan 2015

Alice's Drawings For Integer Addition And Subtraction Open Number Sentences, Nicole Enzinger

Faculty Publications - College of Education

Alice, a fifth grader who participated in twelve weeks of a teaching experiment on integer addition and subtraction, produced drawings as part of her strategy for solving integer addition and subtraction open number sentences. The drawings she created during the twelve weeks of the teaching experiment were analyzed and grouped into the following categories: Single Set of Objects, Double Set of Objects, Number Paths & Number Lines, and Number Sentences. These drawings provide insight into how children may directly model or count when solving integer addition and subtraction problems.