Explain why it is important to focus instruction about operations on solving a variety of word problems

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Complete answers should include 1) how word problems can be more meaningful to children than symbolic expressions, 2) how young children develop understanding of operations by solving a variety of word problems and 3) how solving problems set in familiar situations and meaningful contexts helps children develop understanding of mathematical operations and to judge the reasonableness of their answers.

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Job descriptions should be renewed whenever a reorganization or restructuring of a unit or department occurs

Indicate whether this statement is true or false.

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Give an example of how class advantage gets disguised as individual achievement according to Armstrong & Hamilton (2013)?

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Which of these describes the typical data analysis process for ethnographic research?

a. Applying statistical tests to standardized data b. Interpretation of meanings of human actions and how these are implicated in certain contexts c. Developing theories that are grounded in the dataset d. Application of a theoretical framework to the dataset

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During a meeting between parents and professional, note taking should be limited

Indicate whether the statement is true or false

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