EJ607154 SE563550
Title: Students' Development of Strategies for Turn and Angle Measure.
Author(s): Clements, Douglas H.; Burns, Barbara A.
Source: Educational Studies in Mathematics, v41 n1 p31-45 Jan 2000
Publication Date: 2000
ISSN: 0013-1954
Language: English
Document Type: Journal articles (080); Reports--Research (143)
Journal Announcement: CIJNOV2000
Studies fourth grade students identified by their teachers as having 'above average ability' in mathematics who were participating in 'pull out' enrichment sessions. Indicates that these students did not show initial difficulties with turn commands previously reported in mixed populations, and they created strategies to determine the correct direction of turn and estimate the amount of turn. (Contains 22 references.) (Author/ASK)
Descriptors: *Academically Gifted; Elementary Education; *Geometry; Grade 4; *Learning Strategies; Mathematics Education; Measurement
