Pamela Weber Harris , a former high school math teacher contends in a new volume, Developing Mathematical Reasoning: Avoiding ...

Procedural fluency or conceptual understanding--math educators have debated for ... In the above problem, for example, the equivalent fractions approach is only more efficient than cross ...

it is important to consider how they will engage with the problems presented to them in class and how those problems will contribute either to their greater conceptual understanding or greater ...

Fierce wars continue to rage around math instruction, but there are many practical changes we should make for mathematics students upon which most of us can probably agree, that could transform ...

For example, a student could know the ... understand mathematical concepts. By converting conceptual struggle into procedural learning, US math teaches were unintentionally depriving their ...

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 ...

“A traditional classroom was very procedure-based ... area models and math clipart. Here are some examples of concepts that children are taught under Common Core standards, provided by Caroline ...

At a middle school in California, the state testing in math was underway via ... without understanding the concepts behind the problem-solving procedure. Perhaps he or she has simply memorized ...

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 ...