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Examining the Impact of Play on the Multiplication Fluency of Third Graders

Listerman, Kelsey E
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-6463-8589
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1552668939543415

Abstract Details

2019, Specialist in Education, Miami University, Educational Psychology.
Today professions and post-secondary opportunities in the United States in the areas of science, technology, and engineering are continuously growing and requiring students to have complex understandings of mathematical concepts. As the demand for these professions continues to grow, mathematic achievement scores in the U.S. continue to decline. The current study seeks to examine if an alternative to explicit instruction, such as play, through a multiplication fluency game, can improve mathematic motivation and multiplicative fluency. Students in two third grade classrooms were given pre and posttest curriculum-based fluency tests and surveys focused on their attitude toward math to compare results between the treatment and control classrooms. The treatment classroom played a multiplication fluency game for three days a week for four weeks while the control classroom engaged in traditional instruction. Results were examined qualitatively and quantitatively to conclude that the play intervention appears to have no significance when compared to instruction without a fluency game on mathematical fluency scores.
Sarah Watt (Committee Chair)
Doris Bergen (Committee Member)
Brooke Spangler-Cropenbaker (Committee Member)
44 p.
Education; Educational Psychology; Mathematics; Mathematics Education
play; multiplication fluency; math fact intervention; early mathematics; early math; elementary math; play and elementary students; games; math games; classroom games; math fluency; attitude toward math; elementary math attitude; number sense

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  • Listerman, K. E. (2019). Examining the Impact of Play on the Multiplication Fluency of Third Graders [Doctoral dissertation, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1552668939543415

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Listerman, Kelsey. Examining the Impact of Play on the Multiplication Fluency of Third Graders. 2019. Miami University, Doctoral dissertation. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1552668939543415.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Listerman, Kelsey. "Examining the Impact of Play on the Multiplication Fluency of Third Graders." Doctoral dissertation, Miami University, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami1552668939543415

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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