April 2015, Vol. 21, Issue 8
Caution: Venn Diagrams Ahead!
Dovie L. Kimmins and J. Jeremy Winters
To highlight potential roadblocks, we contrast how this tool is typically used in mathematics and language arts, then circle back to make recommendations for your teaching practice.
Thirty teachers of mathematics, language arts, social studies, and science in self-contained elementary school classrooms were participating in a professional development session aimed at boosting their mathematical content knowledge. The workshop leader was a college mathematics/mathematics education professor who was using Venn diagrams to assess understanding of the relationships between various types of two-dimensional geometric shapes.
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