Year In Review – Page 64 – Curriculum Research & Development Group

Measure Up

Now in its fourth year, the Measure Up elementary mathematics research project focuses on developing algebraic thinking and problem-solving skills in children as young as first grade. The project is based on the work of Russian psychologists, mathematicians, and educators,…

Distance Learning Programs Expand Student Opportunities

John Southworth, CRDG specialist in distance learning–enrichment (DL–E) has teamed with former Associate Dean of Academic and Student Affairs at the College of Tropical Agriculture and Human Resources (CTAHR) Marlene Hapai to create StAmP Net. StAmP Net gives students and…

CRDG Summer Programs

In the late sixties, researchers at CRDG needed a group of summer-school students to field test lessons taught by a cadre of teachers being trained in the Foundational Approaches in Science Teaching (FAST) program. It was here that the idea…

Singapore Connection

In 2004 the mathematics section of the Curriculum Research & Development Group and NeeAnn Polytechnic in Singapore continued work on a collaborative production of Engineering Mathematics I, a program for engineering students in their first mathematics course. The program, based…

Teaching Science as Inquiry

CRDG has responded to the demand for improving the quality of teaching by providing professional development institutes that help teachers improve their understanding of science concepts and learn how these concepts can be taught through inquiry. The “Teaching Science as…

CRDG Organization

COLLEGE OF EDUCATION Donald B. Young, Dean CURRICULUM RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT GROUP Kathleen F. Berg, DirectorHelen O. Au, Assistant Director UNIVERSITY LABORATORY SCHOOL Keoni Jeremiah, PrincipalTracy Teixeira, Dean of StudentsMiki Tomita, Dean of Curriculum and Instruction Three CRDG faculty members…

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

01. Overview: Helping students shift from arithmetic to algebra Many students experience learning difficulties in mathematics with the shift from arithmetic skills to algebraic ideas in middle and high school. Algebraic concepts and skills are the focus of instruction in…

CRDG Organization

X to whY: Algebra for Understanding

UHM CRDG staff member published as second author in The MIT Press Journals

Congratulations to CRDG’s Dean Lodes as second author on a paper published with the VR team in Presence, The MIT Press Journals. This highlights the Hōkūle‘a as the focus of the VR work and links it to classroom usage. Read article: Kilo Hōkū—Experiencing…

COE CRDG Staff Member Receives $44K Research Award from UH Sea Grant College Program

UH Mānoa College of Education (COE) Assistant Specialist Joanna Philippoff was awarded $44K from the University of Hawai‛i Sea Grant College Program. As part of the two-year grant project, Philippoff and Co-Directors Heather Spalding of the Botany Department and Craig Nelson of…

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