Yvonne Kao

This project will create ICUE Online, an online version of the Improving Children's Understanding of Equivalence (ICUE) intervention, which was developed and tested for efficacy with prior IES funding. ICUE Online will consist of activities with just-in-time feedback designed to improve student understanding of mathematical equivalence. Though understanding equivalence is a critical precursor to many math concepts and algebraic thinking, the majority of elementary students fail to develop co...

The purpose of this project is to evaluate Improving Children's Understanding of Equivalence (ICUE), a fully-developed intervention that supplements teachers' existing mathematics instruction and helps students develop understanding of mathematical equivalence. This intervention was developed under two prior IES awards (Arithmetic Practice that Promotes Conceptual Understanding and Computational Fluency and Improving Children's Understanding of Mathematical Equivalence). A vast majority of ...

The Carnegie Mellon's Program in Interdisciplinary Research (PIER) aimed to produce scientists qualified to do rigorous research needed for evidence-based educational practice and policy. PIER fellows dealt with the bi-directional flow of ideas and challenges between laboratory studies and instructional applications.