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Researcher-developed differentiated fifth-grade fractions program built on the Grid Curriculum Model, the Parallel Curriculum Model, and Project M3 materials

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Description

A differentiated mathematics program for the fifth-grade 'Fractions' unit, developed by the researcher using Kaplan's Grid Curriculum Model, Tomlinson et al.'s Parallel Curriculum Model, and the M3 (Mentoring Mathematical Minds) teaching materials. The article states the Grid model is "a model developed to construct the necessary elements and format for the differentiated curriculum". Content, process and product were differentiated around a 'Balance' theme, with fractions taught across Social Sciences, Music, Science and Turkish, projects, discussions and games, guest academicians working in a master-apprentice fashion, and M3 'Deep Thinking' worksheets, activity cards and activity tools. The researcher added subheadings on multiplication and division, fraction problems, ratio and percentage.

Design Implications

Context

Requirements

  • Gifted students previously diagnosed as gifted; a theme-based curriculum with content and process goals moving in the same direction

Constraints

  • Applied only to the Fractions unit of the fifth-grade curriculum in one Turkish pilot school for gifted education

Target Learners

  • fifth-grade students diagnosed as gifted and talented

Learning Goals

  • mathematics attitudes toward the fractions topic
  • deep mathematical thinking and inference

Claims

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Key Sources

  • Deringöl, Y., & Davaslıgil, Ü. (2020). The effect of differentiated mathematics programs on the mathematics attitude of gifted children. Malaysian Online Journal of Educational Sciences, 8(1). http://mojes.um.edu.my/
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title Researcher-developed differentiated fifth-grade fractions program built on the Grid Curriculum Model, the Parallel Curriculum Model, and Project M3 materials
description A differentiated mathematics program for the fifth-grade 'Fractions' unit, developed by the researcher using Kaplan's Grid Curriculum Model, Tomlinson et al.'s Parallel Curriculum Model, and the M3 (Mentoring Mathemat...
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