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| 2007 | Heirdsfield, Ann, Dole, Shelley and Beswick, Kim (2007). Instruction to support mental computation development in young children of diverse ability. In: Peter L. Jeffery, AARE Conference Paper Abstracts - 2006. Australian Association for Research in Education, 2006 International Education Research Conference : engaging pedagogies, Adelaide, Australia, (). 27-30 November 2006. |
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Fostering young childrens mental computation capacity is essential to support their numeracy development. Debate continues as to whether young children should be explicitly taught strategies for mental computation, or be afforded the freedom to develop their own. This paper reports on teaching experiments with two groups of students in their first year of schooling: those considered at-risk, and those deemed mathematically advanced. Both groups made considerable learning gains as a result of instruction.Importantly, the gains of the at-risk group are likely to renew both their own, and their teachers confidence in their ability to learn. In this paper, the instructional programs are documented, highlighting the influence of instruction upon the childrens development.
| |  Associate Professor Shelley Dole | | eSpace Record: |
http://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:193442
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| Keywords: | At-risk children, Learning development -children, Numeracy development. | | |
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