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Impact Of The Order Of Eac And Sos During Instruction On Ratios, Josephine Marlene Derrick May 2021

Impact Of The Order Of Eac And Sos During Instruction On Ratios, Josephine Marlene Derrick

Boise State University Theses and Dissertations

The purpose of this study was twofold. First, a set of instructional materials surrounding proportional reasoning with ratios (particularly the understanding of the multiplicative relationship between the quantities within the ratio, referred to as functional reasoning throughout this thesis) were created using the free online tool, Desmos, with a goal of determining the impact of the lesson materials on student understanding. The second goal was to explore the impact of the order in which two instructional strategies, Explicit Attention to Concepts (EAC) and Students’ Opportunity to Struggle (SOS), had on student understanding. The lesson materials consisted of 5 lessons. These …