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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"Place Value"”.
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A Comparison of Two Methods of Teaching Place Value
… to determine how children who have been taught place value of number by number base systems on the fifth grade level achieve on two standardized achievement tests and a teacher-made test as compared to those children who have been taught using several ideas and techniques of the traditional …
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Identification of numerical principles prerequisite to a functional understanding of place value
… fall to grasp the essential principle of place value after several attempts at reteaching. It was hypothesized that these children must have failed to acquire understanding of some numerical principle(s) prerequisite to understanding the place value aspect of the numeration system. Four …
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Classroom Mathematical Practices In A Preservice Elementary Mathematics Education Course Using An Instructional Sequence Related
… the collective mathematical learning of place value and whole number operations by preservice elementary school teachers. Design-based research methodology was used for formulating the study. A hypothetical learning trajectory and instructional sequence related to place value and …
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Classroom Activities: Bilingual and Cultural Issues in Teaching Two -Digit Numbers
… in learning the base-ten structure and the place-value system. Thus, these abstract topics create substantial difficulties for teachers and students in classroom situations. The unique portraits showed that teacher priorities are generated from in and outside of the classroom situations that …
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A developmental case study : implementing the theory of realistic mathematics education with low attainers
… by revisiting the key number concepts of place value, fractions and decimals. In doing so, a second purpose was to investigate the viability and emerging characteristics of an intervention based on the theory of RME in such a setting (i.e. with low attainers to revisit key number …
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Clinical Studies of Counting Problems With Primary School Children
… tasks, the clinical interviews focused on place value, addition, subtraction, and multiplication. Five counting principles proposed by Gelman and Gallistel (1978) and three additional principles proposed by the author gave focus to children's counting tactics. Easley (1974) provided a …
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Os jogos no ensino de matemática: uma sequência didática para o ensino das operações aritméticas.
… that the subjects had little knowledge about the place value of numbers, not mastered the concepts of operations and has difficulty reading and interpreting the description of the problem. The results obtained in the application of these activities revealed that the subjects developed in terms of …
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HIV Identity Trajectories and Social Interaction
… identity. These processes involve how people place value on their HIV social group membership and the salience of this identity. Value of the social group membership consists of the three identity processes: (a) managing negative meaning, (b) constructing positive meaning, and (c) orienting to …
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Sex selection : ethical issues for the individual, family and society
… In this thesis I argue that parents ought not to place value on gender when it comes to their children since gender is a morally irrelevant factor in the parent-child relationship and parental love should not be conditioned by characteristics like gender. Hence, this preference of theirs regarding …
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The role of political connections in corporations: The case of a monarchical system
… that investors and traders in the stock market place value on the connection with royal family members, as they are considered to be a source of power and a means of securing vital resources for firms.
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Understanding how academics at The University of Cape Town have responded to the introduction of quality assurance policy as a state steering mechanism in higher education
… The study found that while academics place value on the external mission of the university characterised as fitness for purpose and value for money coupled with the continuation of academic excellence, they remain at odds with quality assurance policy, arguing that it has reinforced an …
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Difficulties in number experienced by children aged 7 to 11 in public care in England
… their understanding and skills in counting, place value, addition and subtraction. Interviews with the children, their class teachers, teaching assistants and other adults in school provided data about each child’s experience of mathematics in school, and I interviewed each child’s main …
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Cultivating imperial identity: the garden city and urban landscapes in London, Calcutta and Delhi, c. 1860-1931
… 19th century and early 20th century, setting in place value systems rooted in the link between horticultural space and urbanity itself in both metropole and colony. By considering the garden as imperial place-maker, I analyze how the garden was transmitted across multiple geographies and scales, …
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Valuing natural capital in real estate development : challenges and opportunites in the Pearl River Delta, P.R. China
… and sustainability. A strategy that values natural capital can bring competitive advantage. Natural capitalism is a powerful new business model that integrates business and environmental motives. Through this model, businesses can better satisfy their customers' needs, increase …
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Ethics Education In Marriage and Family Therapy Graduate Programs
Mental health professionals place value on education in the hopeful expectation that ethics instruction will provide the knowledge and awareness required to empower therapists to make ethical clinical decisions. This study examined the current status of ethics education in accredited and non …
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The Effects of a Combined Mathematics Content/Methods Course Involving Learning Cycles on Preservice Elementary Teachers' Beliefs about the Nature, Teaching and Learning of Mathematics
… framework to investigate number concepts and place value; addition and subtraction strategies; multiplication and division strategies; geometry and spatial sense; ratio, proportion, percent, similarity and scale; and probability, counting techniques and statistics. Beliefs about the nature, …
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A study of the representational use of aggregates in the pedagogic elaboration of addition and subtraction in the Department of Basic Education Grades 1 to 3 Numeracy workbooks, prescribed for use in state funded South African schools
… of objects that serve as arguments (inputs) and values (outputs). A mathematised notion of representation—as a structure-preserving mapping—comprised the chief analytical resource for describing computations related across representing and represented computational structures. The analysis, …
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Relaciones humanas the potential for public relations practitioners as cultural intermediaries in Mexico City.
… as an occupational culture. It explores the values and experiences relevant to practitioners and emphasises the need to recognise the role of practitioners as intermediaries in the development of society. In contrast to the prevalence of quasi-experimental methodology often adopted in public …
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