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Role of Mathematical Tools

> Perspectives and Resources:

  • Lesson videos
  • Description of lesson sequence
  • Articles:
    • Thompson, P. W. (1994). Concrete materials and teaching for understanding. Arithmetic Teacher, 41(9), 556-558.
    • Witherspoon, M. L., (1999). And the answer is... Symbolic literacy. Teaching Children Mathematics, 5(7), 396-399.
    • One or two additional peer reviewed journal articles on this topic (hard copy of article(s) to be turned in with paper)
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