Download or read book The Impact of Virtual Manipulatives on Student Achievement in Mathematics written by Kathleen Palazuelos and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study examined the academic achievement of students using virtual manipulatives compared to students using physical manipulatives to understand a fraction unit. The school was a Title I school with a high population of English learners. The unit was taught with the district’s curriculum to both the control and treatment groups. Treatment group students utilized virtual manipulatives during instruction, both dynamic and static manipulatives. Control group students utilized only physical manipulatives. The study found students in the treatment group utilizing virtual manipulatives outperformed the control group on the posttest after controlling for prior knowledge. English learners in the treatment group also had a higher academic achievement than students in the control group after controlling for prior knowledge.
Download or read book International Perspectives on Teaching and Learning Mathematics with Virtual Manipulatives written by Patricia S. Moyer-Packenham and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-06-21 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores terminology, frameworks, and research being conducted worldwide on virtual manipulatives. It brings together international authors who provide their perspectives on virtual manipulatives in research and teaching. By defining terminology, explaining conceptual and theoretical frameworks, and reporting research, the authors provide a comprehensive foundation on the study and use of virtual manipulatives for mathematics teaching and learning. This foundation provides a common way for researchers to communicate about virtual manipulatives and build on the major works that have been conducted on this topic. By discussing these big ideas, the book advances knowledge for future research on virtual manipulatives as these dynamic tools move from computer platforms to hand-held, touch-screen, and augmented platforms.
Download or read book Effects of Manipulative Use on PK 12 Mathematics Achievement written by Amy B. Holmes and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Four figures and three tables are appended.There is growing consensus among researchers, educators, and policy makers about the need for greater emphasis on ambitious student-centered mathematics instruction in light of mounting concern about student mathematics performance in the intermediate grades and beyond. To facilitate educators' adoption of ambitious mathematics instructional practices, recent reform initiatives, such as the Common Core Standards for Mathematics (CCSM), have specified the content elementary students should learn and the practices in which students should engage, while organizations such as the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) have assumed responsibility for making recommendations for improving instructional practices in mathematics. In particular, since 1989, the NCTM has continually called for the increased use of manipulative materials at all levels of mathematics education in order to support students' conceptual and procedural understanding. However, the evidence for the effects of using manipulatives to support student mathematics achievement across the primary and secondary grades is generally mixed. Investigating reasons for such contradictory findings through rigorous inquiry is important for advancing both theory and practice in mathematics education. This systematic review and meta-analysis seeks to address this issue in order to strengthen communication and research partnerships with educators, administrators, and policy makers interested in effective practices in mathematics education. A comprehensive literature search was conducted to identify qualifying studies reported between 1989 and 2012, including a search of electronic bibliographic databases, gray literature databases, and reference lists of research reports and prior reviews. The search culminated in a total of 856 reports, of which 17 reports describing 21 primary studies met the eligibility criteria after screening of titles, abstracts, and/or full-text reports, for a total sample of 1519 students. Two separate meta-analyses were conducted for the comparison of manipulatives use to a business as usual nonuse condition (14 studies, 14 effect sizes, 1126 students) and for the comparison of virtual manipulatives use to a business as usual physical manipulatives use condition (7 studies, 7 effect sizes, 393 students). Although clearly not a mathematics achievement panacea, results from this review provide evidence that student achievement in grades PK-12 can be improved through the use of mathematics manipulatives. Among other implications, practitioners, administrators, and policy makers may want to consider purchasing more inexpensive manipulative materials in order to reserve funds for other interventions that research has shown to have a more substantial impact on student mathematics achievement. Tables and figures are appended.
Download or read book Mastering Math Manipulatives Grades 4 8 written by Sara Delano Moore and published by Corwin Press. This book was released on 2021-10-04 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put math manipulatives to work in your classroom and make teaching and learning math both meaningful and productive. Mastering Math Manipulatives includes everything you need to integrate math manipulatives—both concrete and virtual—into math learning. Each chapter of this richly illustrated, easy-to-use guide focuses on a different powerful tool, such as base ten blocks, fraction manipulatives, unit squares and cubes, Cuisenaire Rods, Algebra tiles and two-color counters, geometric strips and solids, geoboards, and others, and includes a set of activities that demonstrate the many ways teachers can leverage manipulatives to model and reinforce math concepts for all learners. It features: · Classroom strategies for introducing math manipulatives, including commercial, virtual, and hand-made manipulatives, into formal math instruction. · Step-by-step instructions for over 70 activities that work with any curriculum, including four-color photos, printable work mats, and demonstration videos. · Handy charts that sort activities by manipulative type, math topic, domains aligned with standards, and grade-level appropriateness.
Download or read book Models and Modeling Perspectives written by Richard A. Lesh and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-07-16 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This special issue of Mathematical Thinking and Learning describes models and modeling perspectives toward mathematics problem solving, learning, and teaching. The concern is not only the mature forms of models and modeling in communities of scientists and mathematicians, but also the need to initiate students in these forms of thought. The contributions of this issue suggest a variety of ways that students (children through adults) can be introduced to highly productive forms of modeling practices. Collectively, they illustrate how modeling activities often lead to remarkable mathematical achievements by students formerly judged to be too young or too lacking in ability for such sophisticated and powerful forms of mathematical thinking. The papers also illustrate how modeling activities often create productive interdisciplinary niches for mathematical thinking, learning, and problem solving that involve simulations of similar situations that occur when mathematics is useful beyond school.
Download or read book The Impact of Manipulatives written by Maria Lowther and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 55 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Windows on Mathematical Meanings written by Richard Noss and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book challenges some of the conventional wisdoms on the learning of mathematics. The authors use the computer as a window onto mathematical meaning-making. The pivot of their theory is the idea of webbing, which explains how someone struggling with a new mathematical idea can draw on supportive knowledge, and reconciles the individual's role in mathematical learning with the part played by epistemological, social and cultural forces.
Download or read book Efficiency in Learning written by Ruth C. Clark and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2011-01-11 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Efficiency in Learning offers a road map of the most effective ways to use the three fundamental communication of training: visuals, written text, and audio. Regardless of how you are delivering your training materials—in the classroom, in print, by synchronous or asynchronous media—the book’s methods are easily applied to your lesson presentations, handouts, reference guides, or e-learning screens. Designed to be a down-to-earth resource for all instructional professionals, Efficiency in Learning’s guidelines are clearly illustrated with real-world examples.
Download or read book The Effects of Manipulatives on Student Achievement in Mathematics written by Brenda M. Malik and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 166 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Physical Manipulatives on Achievement in Mathematics in Grades K 6 written by Jadwiga Domino and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Even though there numerous books, articles, research studies, and other publications written since National Council of Teacher of Mathematics (NCTM) published Curriculum and Evaluation Standards of School Mathematics in 1989 have advocated the use of manipulatives in the teaching of mathematics, there is no conclusive evidence showing that the use of manipulatives helps students attain higher achievement in mathematics. The purpose of this meta-analysis is to investigate the overall effect of using manipulatives in mathematics instruction, compared to traditional instructional methods, on students' achievement in mathematics in kindergarten through Grade 6. After formulating the research question, the following steps were undertaken: developing a coding form, gathering research studies by searching the literature, coding the appropriate information from each study, calculating effect sizes, and analyzing and interpreting the effect sizes.^The coding form developed for this study included study characteristics such as year of publication, type of publication, study design, student ability level, SES of the students, type of community, type of measuring instrument, and duration of treatment. These nine study characteristics became the moderator variables of this study and it was found that they had a significant impact on the overall mean effect size. Eight electronic data bases and 12 peer-reviewed journals were searched to locate both published and unpublished studies conducted in the U.S. between 1989 and 2010. Eligible studies met the following search criteria: manipulative use was compared to manipulative nonuse, students were in kindergarten through Grade 6, sufficient information was reported for the calculation of effect sizes, and a control group/treatment group design was used.^The search of online databases and education journals revealed 1035 articles about manipulatives and yielded 31 primary studies that met the search criteria. These studies represented 5288 students and produced 35 effect sizes. The mean effect size was 0.50 with a confidence interval between 0.34 and 0.65. These results indicate that students who used manipulatives during mathematics instruction had statistically significant higher mathematics achievement than students who were taught by traditional teaching methods. A 0.50 effect size can be interpreted to mean that students who used manipulatives scored one-half of a standard deviation higher on mathematics achievement tests than students who did not use manipulatives. This improvement in achievement implies that the average student who used manipulatives performed better than 69% of the students who did not use manipulatives.^An implication of this research study is that there is evidence that student achievement in mathematics in kindergarten through Grade 6 can be improved as a result of using manipulatives. Implications for practice are that curriculum supervisors can confidently recommend policies that include manipulatives in the teaching of mathematics, teacher educators should guide future teachers in the proper use of manipulatives, and professional development personnel can encourage and prepare teachers to incorporate the use of manipulatives in their teaching practices.
Download or read book A Comparison of the Impact of Two Virtual Manipulatives on Student Achievement and Conceptual Understanding of Integer Addition and Subtraction written by Johnna J. Bolyard and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Effects of Virtual Manipulatives in Online Learning Environments written by Colin Talbot and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing importance of mathematics achievement scores on accountability ratings, and their effects on student advancement have created a need for effective remediation and intervention practices for struggling students. This quantitative experimental research study looked at the effects of virtual manipulatives in online learning environments. The study was conducted with 27 student participants in a suburban North Texas middle school. The participants completed a three-week online intervention course focused on solving algebraic equations. The treatment group used an online learning course and a virtual algebra scale to assist and reinforce their understanding of algebraic equations, and the control group used only an online learning course. Participants completed a 15 question pre-test and post-test measuring their proficiency in solving algebraic equations, which was analyzed for gains on a whole and categorical basis. The results found no significant differences in mean gains between the control and treatment group. However, results did support the effectiveness of online learning for the use of intervention and remediation practices. No significant differences were found between the control and treatment groups for participants identified as at-risk or those who receive special education services.
Download or read book Viewpoints on Interventions for Learners with Disabilities written by Festus E. Obiakor and published by Emerald Group Publishing. This book was released on 2018-05-18 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume focuses on divergent perspectives and innovative interventions known to maximize the fullest potential of people with exceptionalities. Emphasizing that intervention strategy objectives must always be to meet individual learners unique needs, contributions reflect where we are and where we are going in the field of special education.
Download or read book Where Mathematics Come From How The Embodied Mind Brings Mathematics Into Being written by George Lakoff and published by . This book was released on 2000-11-02 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A study of the cognitive science of mathematical ideas.
Download or read book Assistive Technology written by Emily C. Bouck and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2015-12-31 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Succinct, yet comprehensive, Assistive Technology is designed to help educators better understand assistive technology and how it can support students with disabilities from early childhood through transition into adulthood. This practical book considers the purpose of technology and the support it can provide rather than a student’s disability categorization. Grounded in research and filled with engaging case studies and activities, author Emily C. Bouck offers an unbiased depiction of the advantages and limitations of technology. Readers are exposed to a full range of assistive technology including up-to-date coverage of low- and high-technology, as well as free and for-purchase options that can be used to support students with disabilities.
Download or read book The Effect of Math Manipulatives on First Grade Student Achievement written by Catharine Millikan Ely and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Differences Between Concrete and Virtual Manipulatives in Preparing Tenth Grade Math Students for Standardized Tests written by John Gregory Pappas and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
