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Guided reading is a key component of classroom literacy programmes in New Zealand. The Ministry of Education guidelines on how teachers should take guided reading sessions for emergent and early...
| Year published: 2001 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Most children have trouble understanding decimals - they confuse them with whole numbers or with fractions. Here are some concrete suggestions for how children can use their everyday knowledge to...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
There is growing pressure for all teachers to become teachers of values. Here are some ways in which mathematics teachers can incorporate values education into their existing mathematics programme...
| Year published: 1999 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Research into the use of Beginning School Mathematics shows that the resource must be used flexibly and creatively in order to achieve the best mathematics learning amongst junior school children.
| Year published: 1997 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Flexible seating arrangements to suit all types of learning.
| Year published: 1995 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
What is good thinking? Creative thinking is always a pleasure. Critical thinking tends to get a bad press, but it is just as necessary. Here it is carefully analysed, and research adds insights on...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
In four different countries, including our own, the same problems keep cropping up - children do not connect simple tasks, such as sharing, with the written fractions they meet in class. Research and...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
Many years of patient research have discovered how new ideas get formed, embedded, and remembered at the 8- to 12-year-old level. The conclusions are vital for all teaching.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
The extreme methods (competition and laissez faire) are examined and research results mentioned. Her own research study of what children prefer, points to a middle way, focusing children's attention...
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article
A review of the many research projects on how prior knowledge affects learning. Generally, having old knowledge to which new knowledge may be attached greatly assists learning the new.
| Year published: 1994 | Publication type: Journal article | Publisher: NZCER Press | Content type: Set article