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Title

The importance of intention and order: teaching for conceptual understanding using handheld technology 

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Year

2009

Publisher

University of California, Los Angeles 

Author

Vendlinski, T.  

Language

English

Institution

National Center for Reseearch on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing (CRESST) 

Department

 

City

Los Angeles, CA 

Abstract

While it seems clear that instruction on both procedures and concepts is important in mathematics education, the relative importance of each and the order teachers should use each to build instruction with handheld technology such as graphing calculators is still unsettled.

Reference

Report

Keywords

TI-Nspire, handheld technology,graphing calculators,algebra,linear equations  

Document Content

To help begin answering these questions, researcher  randomly divided 34 algebra students who were to begin their study of writing linear equations into two groups. One group received conceptual then procedural instruction on writing linear equations; the other group received the same instruction in reverse order. Both groups had access to the TI-Nspire™ handheld. Our findings suggest that conceptual instruction followed by instruction that integrates both concepts and procedures was the most efficacious in helping students learn to begin writing linear equations.
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