Learning Processes

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Learning Processes Task Group
Chicago Meeting Progress Report April 20, 2007
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Learning Processes Task Group

• Contributing Members
• Dave Geary
• Dan Berch
• Wade Boykin
• Susan Embretson
• Valerie Reyna
• Bob Siegler
• Jennifer Graban, staff

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Learning Processes Task Group

• Completed to Date
• Principles of learning and cognition
• Mathematical knowledge children bring to school
• Math learning in whole number arithmetic

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Learning Processes Task Group

• Goals for the June Meeting in Miami, FL
• Take comments and suggestions into
  consideration from other task groups
• and revise three existing sections
  accordingly
• Begin to make policy recommendations more
  explicit
• New section on Social, Motivational, and
  Affective Processes

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Learning Processes Task Group

• Goals for the September Meeting in St. Louis, MO
• Math learning in the key content areas
• Fractions
• Estimation
• Geometry
• Algebra
• Review of differences and similarities across
  race,
• ethnicity, socio-economic status, and gender
  for key areas
• Brain science and math learning