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Eighth-Grade Students' Use And Justification Of Multiple Represenations, Maria Nielsen
Eighth-Grade Students' Use And Justification Of Multiple Represenations, Maria Nielsen
Honors Projects
The purpose of this study is to explore students’ use of multiple representations in the classroom and their reasoning for representation choice. The participants of this study were 22 eighth-grade students. All students took a short pretest consisting of three items. The items addressed mathematics content covered during regular instruction. Students were asked to answer each question using different representations. Usual instruction included frequent probing and encouragement of students' representation use while problem solving. Students were asked to explain their reasoning when problem solving and share their representations with others. Following the unit of instruction, students completed a posttest composed …
The Effects Of A Summer Math Program On Academic Achievement, Kermit Snyder
The Effects Of A Summer Math Program On Academic Achievement, Kermit Snyder
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The math achievement of students is low in a small rural district in Colorado. The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of a summer third through fifth grade math program in improving math scores. Piaget's theory of cognitive development was used as the theoretical foundation for the math instructional resource delivered to the struggling students in the program. A quasi-experimental design was used to address whether the math scores improved for the participating students (n = 145) and whether the participating students experienced a smaller summer loss in academic achievement than the students who did not participate …