id: 05970974
dt: j
an: 2012a.00316
au: Parker, Renee; Breyfogle, M.Lynn
ti: Learning to write about mathematics.
so: Teach. Child. Math. 18, No. 2, 90-99 (2011).
py: 2011
pu: National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM), Reston, VA
la: EN
cc: D42 D52
ut: grade 3; action research; content area writing; writing assignments;
    academic standards; state standards; problem solving; skills; scoring
    rubrics; teaching methods
ci: 
li: http://www.nctm.org/publications/article.aspx?id=30698
ab: Summary: Beginning in third grade, Pennsylvania students are required to
    take the Pennsylvania State Standardized Assessment (PSSA), which
    presents multiple-choice mathematics questions and open-ended
    mathematics problems. Consistent with the Communication Standard of the
    National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, while solving the
    open-ended problems, students must explain and describe the process
    they follow to arrive at their answer. This article discusses a
    student-friendly math rubric that helped improve third graders’
    competencies when explaining solution strategies in writing. It
    describes a third-grade teacher’s story about her action research
    project and what she learned about using the math rubric with
    elementary school children. (Contains 7 figures.) (ERIC)
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