Maggie McGatha, Linda Sheffield
A year-long professional development institute combined with a summer camp for students. Both were designed to help teachers and students develop their problem-solving and problem-posing abilities. Teachers will learn about effectively posing problems to aid in student problem solving.
Kelli Thomas
The results of research about students' and teachers' use of an interaction framework (THINK) to guide group communication about problem solving. Students who used the THINK framework demonstrated greater gains in problem-solving achievement than students who did not use the framework. Teachers reading this article will understand the THINK framework and how to apply it to classroom use.
Der-Ching Yang
An example of a fourth-grade lesson from Taiwan in which number sense is developed through real classroom interactions.
Marta Molina, Rebecca Ambrose
How third-grade students developed an understanding of the equals sign and began to use relational thinking as they discussed true/false and open-number sentences. The sequence of instructional activities and children’s responses to them are provided.