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Mokros, Janice R.

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Works: 23 works in 39 publications in 1 language and 731 library holdings
Classifications: qa135.5, 372.7
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1 edition published in in English and held by 221 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published in in English and held by 126 libraries worldwide
This book is the story of the authors' experiences in developing a new elementary mathematics curriculum. Find out what they learned as they observed teachers and students during the field tests of these new materials. This book helps you to make changes in your teaching and assessment methods and tells how to gather support for these changes.--[book cover]
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2 editions published between and 1992 in English and held by 110 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 55 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 31 libraries worldwide
Provides units to help students become familiar with the process of measuring and develop language to describe weight, capacity, and length, explore qualitative comparison, and learn to use units to measure and compare.
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2 editions published in in English and held by 27 libraries worldwide
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4 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 22 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 18 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published between and 1983 in English and held by 15 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 10 libraries worldwide
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2 editions published between and 2006 in English and held by 9 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 6 libraries worldwide
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3 editions published in in English and held by 5 libraries worldwide
This paper reports a study to address two questions concerning children's understanding of average: How do children construct and interpret representativeness within the context of data sets? and How do children think about the mean as a particular mathematical definition and relationship? Twenty-one students (seven each of 4th, 6th, and 8th graders) were interviewed using a series of seven open-ended problems that examined the notion of average. The four that yielded the most results were identified and included in the report. These were two "Construction Problems," an "Interpretation Problem," and a "Weighted Means Problem." Analysis of transcripts and summaries of the interviews produced five approaches that children used for constructing and describing average. The approaches were: (1) Average as Mode; (2) Average as Algorithm; (3) Average as Reasonable; (4) Average as Midpoint; and (5) Average as Mathematical Point of Balance. Interpretation of these approaches concluded that students whose strategies were dominated by Modal or Algorithmic approaches did not view average as a representative measure of the body of data as a whole. Interpretation also concluded that students whose strategies were dominated by the Reasonable, Midpoint, and Balance approaches embodied different aspects of constructing a mathematical definition of average. Further research questions resulting from the research are discussed. (Contains 11 references.) (MDH)
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1 edition published in in English and held by 3 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 2 libraries worldwide
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1 edition published in in English and held by 1 library worldwide
 
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Mokros, Jan
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English (39)
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