Study Guide
Test II

Spring 2009 Section 001

You are responsible for the information in the text (Reys Chapters 2, 7-13, and 16-17) as well as all class discussions, handouts (Course Pack), and PowerPoint presentations.  Please focus your study on the following key concepts:

Meeting Individual Needs / Theories of Instruction
Constructivism
Vygotsky
Piaget
Zone of Proximal Development

Early Number Sense and Numeration
Pre-number concepts
Counting (principles, stages, strategies, etc.)
Number relationships

Whole Number Operations
Proportional and non-proportional models
Place value
Strategies for learning the basic facts
Teaching addition, subtraction, multiplication and division
Models for the four operations
Appropriate methods for teaching the operations
Computational tools (calculator, etc.)

Fractions
Fraction concepts
Fraction algorithms (addition, subtraction and multiplication)
Different meanings of fractions
Part-whole models
Appropriate tools/manipulatives for teaching fractions

Measurement
Reasons for teaching measurement
The Measurement Process
Standard and nonstandard measurement
Measurement Attributes
Appropriate tools/manipulatives for teaching measurement
Best practice in teaching measurement
Concepts related to units

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability
The Statistical Process
Descriptive Statistics (Measures of Center or Central Tendency)
Probability of an event