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  • Teaching Number by Building on Students’ Strengths: An Investigation in Remote Australian Schools

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    Sullivan, Peter
    Grootenboer, Peter
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    Grootenboer, Peter J.
    Year published
    2010
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    Abstract
    It is widely accepted that teaching should build on what students already know and understand. In this study, 42 Aboriginal children in Grades 3 to 6 were posed a series of related questions on addition and subtraction. The question items were posed in a one-on-one interview situation both in the context of money and with just numbers. The data revealed an alignment between the students' capacity to work with money and to work with numbers. This implies that money may be a useful context for beginning the development of number understanding and fluency in remote Indigenous contexts.It is widely accepted that teaching should build on what students already know and understand. In this study, 42 Aboriginal children in Grades 3 to 6 were posed a series of related questions on addition and subtraction. The question items were posed in a one-on-one interview situation both in the context of money and with just numbers. The data revealed an alignment between the students' capacity to work with money and to work with numbers. This implies that money may be a useful context for beginning the development of number understanding and fluency in remote Indigenous contexts.
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    Conference Title
    AARE 2010 Conference Proceedings
    Publisher URI
    https://www.aare.edu.au/publications/aare-conference-papers/show/6092/teaching-number-by-building-on-students-strengths-an-investigation-in-remote-australian-schools
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    © The Author(s) 2010. The attached file is reproduced here in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. For information about this conference please refer to the conference's website or contact the author.
    Subject
    Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/37688
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