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Mathematics Workshop: Mathematics Class Becomes Learner-Centered is a well-written article about using math workshops as a tool to facilitate mathematical learning in elementary classrooms. It argues that writing workshops, in which students are given freedom with time and materials to develop their...
Through the mathematics logbook, the ways in which prior mathematical understanding and knowledge was evident in the different levels of ability from each student. Through using language to explain their understanding, the students were able to work out were they went wrong and correct it themselves...
Special Needs Children and Mathematics The teaching of mathematics to children in primary school classrooms can be seen as challenging for some teachers. This is due to a changing society and the introduction of more complex mathematical skills. Once it was acceptable only to teach the four major...
Math is one of the basic sciences of life; it can be said that is the most basic science, the first thing a person learns, apart from reading and writing, is how to add and subtract. I like mathematics because every time I solve a math problem it becomes an important challenge to me, a c...
Intelligence is a concept that is encountered everyday but a concept that is often misunderstood. Most people have formulated a definition of intelligence based on their own experiences without even realizing it. We take for granted that we know the meaning of the term without truly thinking about...
Center for Young Children Observation Report On February 23, 2005, I visited the Center for Young Children at the University of Maryland. During this visit, I gained vast amounts of knowledge about different aspects of a young child's classroom environment. During my visit to the Center for Y...
There is no best way to learn. Everyone learns differently, and because of this, the best way to learn is the way you learn. A learning style is a certain way that the mind receives and processes new information. There are many different approaches to learning, but the three main styles are visual, ...
Nowadays, nearly all people research their brain preferences, intelligences and learning styles to describe themselves, the techniques, which have been emposed themselves in education life, are affective or not and how can they be language learners. In addition, I think about myself. ...
In general, education means the textbook knowledge provided to children at school or other training institutions through some teachers to develop specific specialized skills and use those skills in their occupations. However, the exact and complete meaning of education is a lot broader and more prof...
As a student of the University of Phoenix I have laid out a few personal goals for myself to achieve. I divided my goals into two categories, long-term goals and short-term goals. My short term goals are to develop essential skills such as research skills, written communication skills, personal ...
There are about eight types of learning styles: active, reflective, sensing, intuitive, visual, verbal, sequential, and global. My 4 types of learning styles are reflective, intuitive, visual, and sequential. Since now I know how I learn best, I can use these techniques to help me study for my cours...
Isaac Asimov has a very unique opinion about intelligence. He determines that his intelligence is not "absolute but is a function of the society I live in and of the fact that a small subsection of that society has managed to foist itself on the rest" (Asimov). This is actually an accurate ...
For years, prescriptive, teacher-oriented, objectivist classrooms have endured as a mainstay of the American educational enterprise. Research in the past two decades has created a climatic change in education. Piagetian Constructism, the construction of disseminated knowledge into a learner, has ...
The saying, "Education is the key to success," is often used to encourage young students to attend primary and secondary education in order to succeed in the future. Ever since we were old enough to attend kindergarten, the importance of earning an education has always been emphasized. Af...
Education Education is a gift that is provided for all our children in the United States. The United States also provides a free education for the mentally retarded children. Education for regular education students and for the mentally retarded students have many similarities, but still have the...
The idea of using a song composing assignment to promote learning and greater subject matter retention in elementary school students does not seem to be the best possible use of the underlying educational theories referenced in the article Science Rocks! A Performance Assessment for Eart...
Fascination of Knowledge. What is fascination of knowledge? Well, according to dictionary.com, it can be defined as the "unseen, inexplicable influence" of knowledge on an individual. Personally, however, I would describe it as one of two things. Either a childish yearning, that appears in all ki...
The article containing the hypothesis used by the research study this paper will discuss is the Teachers' Gestures Facilitate Students' Learning: A Lesson in Symmetry, authored by Valenzeno, Alibali, and Klatzky. The research study, on the other hand, has a document title of Understanding Chan...
The college experience traditionally has been considered a rite of passage, the time where young minds absorb knowledge and develop the critical thinking skills to put that knowledge into action. This benefits not only themselves but to the community around them. This view is important now more th...
LITERATURE REVIEW Literacy skills are important for a student to develop because difficulties with reading and writing will affect all areas of their school achievement. Reading is the main way that students find and present information for school activities. It is also the main way that students...
Meno\'s paradox is an argument in the form of a question. As it is written, Meno asks, \"How will you look for something when you don\'t know what it is.. or even if you come right upon it, how will you know that what you have found is the thing that you didn\'t know?\" Socrates states it more simpl...
Does Basic Schooling Prepare Students for College and Life? Since everyone's humble beginnings in pre-school or kindergarten we have all been groomed to be the scholars of the future. While some have strayed from the pack, the majority has continued on a track set for a more fulfilling lif...
The Value and Benefits of a College Education What is the definition of education? The term education has several definitions, it can be defined as, the act or process of educating or being educated or it refers to the one received from an educational institution, in other words a college. An ...
Education is the key to the ignition to becoming successful in life. It is our only source of knowledge we have to offer for our survival. Education is a challenge we all experience in life. An education requires, knowledge and discipline. Knowledge is the fact or condition of having information or ...
The Visual Learner I am a Visual Learner, and in order for me to retain information, everything I learn has to be digested thru my eyes. I took the Index of Learning Styles Questionnaire, by Barbara A. Soloman, And Richard M. Felder, to find out the learning style I prefer. The data, altho...