most important concepts and skills for instruction. One condition of many of the most important instructional concepts is the presence of a "Big Idea" (Carnine, 1994). Big Ideas in an instructional program are the important concepts that provide the anchors and connections for the to-be-learned information (Baker, Simmons & Kameenui, 1994).

An important part of this stage is helping children begin to reason about numbers, construct arguments and critique those of others with the support of concrete manipulatives. These are important early concepts that must be mastered in order to reason meaningfully about numbers.

10 multisensory techniques for teaching math. Multisensory instruction isn’t just for reading. It can also help kids who have trouble with math . The use of sight, touch, hearing, and movement can make it easier to understand what numbers and symbols represent. These 10 multisensory techniques can help kids learn math.

34 Notes Teaching and Learning Materials Diploma in Elementary Education (D.El.Ed) Let us consider the following situation: Situation 1: One day Ms.Seema, the teacher of class 2, brought several types of fruits and vegetables in the class and asked the children to identify them.

The primary focus of the Community Learning Network (CLN) is to help K-12 teachers integrate Information Technology into their classrooms. This CLN subject page provides access to curricular and instructional materials in the broad subject area of Business Education as well as

the teaching practice, any significant differences emerging from the connection between the use of teaching aids in the course in music education and a number of general variables, including any prior elementary musical educa-tion of the teachers themselves. Keywords: teaching, music education, musical instruments, teaching aids, class teachers. 1.

Therefore, it is important to know what materials to use, titled 'A meta-analysis of the efficacy of teaching mathematics with concrete manipulatives', Sowell, E.J., 1989, 'Effects of manipulative materials in mathematics instruction', Journal for Research in Mathematics Instruction 76, 68-72.

Visual mathematics is an important part of mathematics for its own sake and new brain research tells us that visual mathematics even helps students learn numerical mathematics. In a ground breaking new study Joonkoo Park & Elizabeth Brannon ( ), found that the most powerful learning occurs when we use different areas of the brain.

effective teaching of mathematics is an important concept that needs to be explored again and again. LITERATURE REVIEW. The use of manipulatives, or concrete materials, has been debated for decades. The debate continues to this day. With our nation in need of more effective teaching practices in America’s math classrooms (Carlson, 1992), with

concrete learning and elaboration that were useful for processing new material. Teaching in small steps requires time, and the more effective teachers spent more time presenting new material and guiding student practice than did the less effective teachers. In a study of mathematics instruction, for instance, the most effective math-

Ideally, when the vision statement is finalized, it will be a concrete statement that communicates the district's vision of what is important in mathematics and science education. It should illustrate how standards will be used and describe what a classroom should look like or what kind(s) of thinking a student should be able to do.