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Perspectives and Resources
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Students' Thinking

> Perspectives and Resources:

  • Lesson videos
  • Description of lesson sequence
  • Articles:
    • Bright, G. W. (1996). Understanding children's reasoning. Teaching Children Mathematics, 3(1), 18-22.
    • Cobb, P., & Merkel, G. (1989). Thinking strategies: Teaching arithmetic through problem solving. In P. L. Trafton & A. P. Shulte (Eds.), New directions for elementary school mathematics (pp. 70-81). Reston, VA: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics.
    • Kline, K. (1998). Kindergarten is more than counting. Teaching Children Mathematics, 5(2), 84-87.
    • 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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