National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2013 Research Presession

Please note: The NCTM conference program is subject to change.

Tuesday, April 16, 2013: 3:40 PM
Room 201 (Colorado Convention Center)
Christine M Massey , University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Description:
This session presents a study that provides compelling evidence that using adaptive software based on principles of perceptual learning significantly improves sixth graders’ mastery of challenging fraction concepts. Students made robust, long-lasting gains in their ability to extract the relational structure needed to understand fraction quantities.