"To reading, writing and arithmetic, we should add computational thinking to every child's analytical ability".
"Sesame Street" perpetually evolves as guided by trending theories of education: when the game-show host Guy Smiley ambushes Bert into a round of "Estimation Crustacean," which is a math quiz contested by a shellfish, the scene reflects current thinking on teaching arithmetic.
We conduct a model-based analysis of problem-posed products as well as intermediate products while posing problems from Monsakun log data of first-grade elementary school students to investigate their methods of thinking in posing arithmetic word problems.
In the study, of which she was co-author, 552 Texas college students fluent in both Spanish and English were asked about their language preferences for thinking, dreaming and doing mental arithmetic.
They were installed in an adjacent room and first performed a number of "warm-up" exercises for "thinking aloud", such as verbalizing arithmetic and geometric problem solutions.
The franc has been gone for nearly a year now and Parisians are no longer fumbling with their new euro coins and bills, even if most are still doing mental arithmetic -- multiplying by seven -- to keep thinking in francs.
Sometimes you could tell that his mind was elsewhere and he'd tell us to do mental arithmetic for 20 minutes in silence while I'm sure he was thinking about a word or a phrase".
In sum, fostering relational thinking is critical because it gives meaning to arithmetic, leads to conceptual understanding of number and number properties, and enhances students' thinking about mathematical generalizations [17, 32, 43].
The primary purpose of public schools is to teach critical thinking skills, reading, writing, arithmetic, phonics, history, science, and character as well as knowledge-based education, not job training.
