Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan

Der-Ching Yang; Chun-Jen Hsu

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Der-Ching Yang, Chun-Jen Hsu

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This study reports on two excerpts from a 6th grade Taiwanese class, describing how a teacher examined and promoted his students’ development of number sense. It illustrates an effort to integrate number sense activities into the mathematics curriculum in ways that encourage exploration, discussion, thinking and reasoning. The results indicate that number sense can be developed through well-designed number sense activities, effective teaching, and a good learning environment. It also demonstrates that students’ number sense and mathematical thinking can be promoted through the use of multiple representations.

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Benchmark
Estimation
Learning environments
Number sense

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INT ELECT J MATH ED, Volume 4, Issue 2, May 2009, 92-109

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Yang, D.-C., & Hsu, C.-J. (2009). Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 4(2), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/232

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Yang DC, Hsu CJ. Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan. INT ELECT J MATH ED. 2009;4(2):92-109. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/232

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Yang DC, Hsu CJ. Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan. INT ELECT J MATH ED. 2009;4(2), 92-109. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/232

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Yang, Der-Ching, and Chun-Jen Hsu. "Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan". International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education 2009 4 no. 2 (2009): 92-109. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/232

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Yang, D.-C., and Hsu, C.-J. (2009). Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan. International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, 4(2), pp. 92-109. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/232

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Yang, Der-Ching et al. "Teaching Number Sense for 6th Graders in Taiwan". International Electronic Journal of Mathematics Education, vol. 4, no. 2, 2009, pp. 92-109. https://doi.org/10.29333/iejme/232