Anne S. Grossman’s research while affiliated with The Graduate Center, CUNY and other places

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Mid-nineteenth century methods for the 1970s
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April 1971

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The Arithmetic Teacher

Anne S. Grossman

In the present world of innovation and rapid communication, educators show much fervor for change and for implementing new programs and materials in their schools and classrooms. Because of this search for the “new,” many old and useful methods and materials used by previous generations for teaching mathematics are too often forgotten or exchanged for what we like to believe are more contemporary ones. This emphasis on what's new in the teaching of mathematics seems to obscure the main purpose of teaching mathematics. Old arithmetic is still being taught in the elementary school. It might also be wise to use some old strategies and effective methods from the past in the modern cl assroom to accomplish our goals in the 1970s.

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... This view is supported by Nwana (2007: 47) who opined that "if the examination is knowledge-centered, the students will tend to study the subject for its factual content and pay little or no attention to understanding these facts, ideas etc., applying them in novel situations, analyzing them into new wholes and evaluating them, then the examination evaluates subject being examined". The exposition of the students to the higher-level of cognitive domain is beneficial to the students as postulated by Grossman (1971). The predominant use of high-level questions is an effective way of trying to move the students forward with high and low understanding but low questions strategy will not facilitate high-level understanding. ...

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Content Validity of West African Examination Council Financial Accounting Questions
Mid-nineteenth century methods for the 1970s
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  • April 1971

The Arithmetic Teacher

Anne S. Grossman