Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for years which is more important. I sided with conceptual understanding until my colleague Angela McIver helped me see ...

For example, conceptual learning. A lot of the instructional products have opened up our eyes to real conceptual learning, not just procedural math anymore. But a lot of teachers have only grown up ...

For example, a student could know the procedure for multiplying fractions without having a conceptual ... J. W., & Holyoak, K. J. (2012). Teaching the conceptual structure of mathematics.

Christopher Quarles, 38, recently completed research focused on two types of math: procedural and conceptual. Procedural math means knowing the steps to solve a specific type of problem, while ...

The MATH 1300 team was accustomed to writing exam questions that were either conceptual or computational in nature. As they began designing questions for the third midterm, Stalvey and the exam ...

Math texts often require students to repeat the same procedure over and over, using different numbers in the formula, to try to hammer procedural lessons into their memories, Quarles said.

NORTH BILLERICA, Mass., Nov. 8, 2017 /PRNewswire/ -- Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math® to further help elementary students improve t ...