title: Supporting students' additive thinking: The use of equal additions for subtraction

authors: Young-Loveridge, Jennifer

subjects: academic achievement

abstract: This paper looks at how teachers can support students' additive thinking. It reports on a study of a lesson designed to teach the equal additions strategy for subtraction, contained in Numeracy Development Project (NDP) Book 5. Nine teachers were observed teaching mathematics. Despite having a strong commitment to promoting conceptual understanding, many teachers struggled with various aspects of the material and resorted to teaching procedurally. We concluded that teachers need to have a deeper, more connected understanding of addition and subtraction in order to develop their pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics.

text: Supporting students' additive thinking: The use of equal additions for subtraction This paper looks at how teachers can support students' additive thinking. It reports on a study of a lesson designed to teach the equal additions strategy for subtraction, contained in Numeracy Development Project (NDP) Book 5. Nine teachers were observed teaching mathematics. Despite having a strong commitment to promoting conceptual understanding, many teachers struggled with various aspects of the material and resorted to teaching procedurally. We concluded that teachers need to have a deeper, more connected understanding of addition and subtraction in order to develop their pedagogical content knowledge in mathematics.

year: 2011

title: How reading published stories and making story webs can work together to enhance classroom story writing

authors: Dymock, Susan

abstract: Many students find story writing a challenge (Beard & Burrell, 2010; Calfee & Patrick, 1995; Dunn & Finley, 2010; Dymock & Nicholson, 2010; Richards, Sturm, & Cali, 2012; Saunders & Smith, 2014). Teachers need a simple strategy that will have a significant positive effect on the quality of student writing. This teaching idea is about going from "Too hard" to "I can do that". Our suggestion is to use the well-known story web strategy in a different way by applying it to a published story and then going from this to story writing.

text: How reading published stories and making story webs can work together to enhance classroom story writing Many students find story writing a challenge (Beard & Burrell, 2010; Calfee & Patrick, 1995; Dunn & Finley, 2010; Dymock & Nicholson, 2010; Richards, Sturm, & Cali, 2012; Saunders & Smith, 2014). Teachers need a simple strategy that will have a significant positive effect on the quality of student writing. This teaching idea is about going from "Too hard" to "I can do that". Our suggestion is to use the well-known story web strategy in a different way by applying it to a published story and then going from this to story writing.

year: 2015

title: An AR memory app based on Māori mnemonic aids

authors: Taia, Ivy

subjects: computer science

abstract: Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a world-wide “silent epidemic” causing a variety of memory issues for those affected. Although several software approaches aim to aid memory recollection, they are inadequate for many TBI survivors and none address aspects of cultural awareness in New Zealand. We explored design concepts of traditional Māori cultural tools / techniques and how they helped Māori people recall past information. This paper describes our research and development of Maumahara Papahou, a mobile app that uses Augmented Reality features to create a digital memory treasure box based on the concepts of Māori mnemonic aids.

text: An AR memory app based on Māori mnemonic aids Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) is a world-wide “silent epidemic” causing a variety of memory issues for those affected. Although several software approaches aim to aid memory recollection, they are inadequate for many TBI survivors and none address aspects of cultural awareness in New Zealand. We explored design concepts of traditional Māori cultural tools / techniques and how they helped Māori people recall past information. This paper describes our research and development of Maumahara Papahou, a mobile app that uses Augmented Reality features to create a digital memory treasure box based on the concepts of Māori mnemonic aids.

year: 2018