Arthur Baroody

The primary purpose of this project was to help children at risk for difficulties learning mathematics become fluent in basic addition and subtraction facts. In the classroom, students who fall behind in mathematics and are identified as having learning disabilities often lack fluency with basic mathematics facts. These skills are essential for many more-advanced aspects of school mathematics. To address this skill gap, the researchers developed three qualitatively different computer-aided p...

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy of using a learning trajectories approach to mathematics instruction to foster the development of early mathematics skills which are predictive of later school achievement. A learning trajectories approach includes a goal for teaching a mathematics concept, a developmental progression of levels of thinking about the concept, and instructional activities and content for each developmental level. Although research has shown that educational...

Children at risk for academic failure frequently have difficulty achieving fluency in basic addition and subtraction facts. Many at-risk first and second graders have difficulty with even the simplest addition facts, such as 6 + 0 = 6 and 7 + 1 = 8. Although early intervention might prevent these deficiencies and learning difficulties, little research has rigorously examined how to best promote fact fluency among young at-risk children. The purpose of this study is to evaluate the efficacy o...