Elementary Modeling: Connecting Counting with Sharing

Author: Megan H. Wickstrom and Tracy Aytes
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Volume/Issue:
Volume 24: Issue 5
Page(s):
300–307
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.5951/teacchilmath.24.5.0300
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Examine second-grade students' investigative processes, thinking, and revisions in this lesson using fish crackers.

Contributor Notes

Megan H. Wickstrom, megan.wickstrom@montana.edu, is an assistant professor of mathematics education at Montana State University in Bozeman. She is part of a team of researchers investigating mathematical modeling in the elementary grades and enjoys working with classroom teachers as they implement modeling tasks.

Tracy Aytes, tracy.aytes@bsd7.org, teaches third grade at Irving Elementary School in Bozeman, Montana. She is interested in making math applicable and relevant for her students through math modeling and project-based learning.

(Corresponding author is Wickstrom megan.wickstrom@montana.edu)
(Corresponding author is Aytes tracy.aytes@bsd7.org)
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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Inc. All rights reserved. 2018
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Article Category:
Research Article
Print Publication Date:
01 Mar 2018
Online Publication Date:
Mar 2018
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