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Autor:
Steven A. Hecht, Don Ploger
Publikováno v:
Childhood Education. 88:169-176
I had been to school … and could say the multiplication table up to six times seven is thirty-five, and I don't reckon I could ever get any further than that if I was to live forever. I don't take ...
Autor:
Steven A. Hecht, Don Ploger
Publikováno v:
Journal of Research in Childhood Education. 23:267-277
Two randomized control/treatment experiments tested the effectiveness of Chartworld software on enhancing mathematical knowledge of 3rd-graders. In Experiment 1, 196 children were randomly assigned to receive either Chartworld or textbook instruction
Autor:
Don Ploger, Michael Rooney
Publikováno v:
Teaching Children Mathematics. 12:12-17
Methods to enhance children's understanding of fractions through classroom activities. Models are used to foster number sense, and rules are introduced that are helpful and meaningful to children. Use the activities and models in this article to adap
Autor:
Penelope Fritzer, Don Ploger
Publikováno v:
The Social Studies. 92:248-251
(2001). The New World and the New Frontier: Studying the Age of Exploration and the Space Age with Elementary Students. The Social Studies: Vol. 92, No. 6, pp. 248-251.
Publikováno v:
Teaching Children Mathematics. 4:150-155
Young children are fascinated by the concept of impossible, and that interest can lead to an extended exploration in mathematical reasoning. This article describes a set of class-room-tested activities that help children develop convincing arguments
Publikováno v:
Teaching Children Mathematics. 3:330-334
What is the first Fibonacci number greater than a million? Can elementary teachers use a challenging problem, such as this, to enhance the algebraic thinking of their students? Even with a calculator, the computations are quite tedious. The computer
Publikováno v:
The Mathematics Teacher. 89:743-757
Cryptography is the art and science of encoding and decoding messages. It plays an important role in business as a means to protect corporate secrets, in banking to secure accounts, in the military to protect information, and in personal security dev
Autor:
Don Ploger, Margaret Carlock
Publikováno v:
The Journal of Mathematical Behavior. 15:441-452
This article examines the self-directed activity of two students who learned about molecular structure by writing computer programs. The students wrote programs to display the solution of a mathematics problem and then extended their programs to repr
Publikováno v:
TechTrends. 41:26-29
Autor:
Don Ploger, Ed Lay
Publikováno v:
Journal of Educational Computing Research. 8:347-364
This study is an example of how programming can be used to enhance the learning of science. It examines the progress of a high school student using Boxer, a programming language designed as a successor to Logo. The student began by writing programs t