From: Roya (for Teacher2Teacher Service)
Date: Dec 11, 2002 at 22:30:04
Subject: Re: Conceptual vs procedural knowledge

Hi Yvonne,

According to NCTM's Principles and Standards for School Mathematics:

"It should be evident that procedural knowledge is intertwined with
conceptual knowledge. For example, one cannot extend or modify a procedure
for finding the least common multiple of two numbers unless the concept of
common multiple is itself understood."

More here:

http://standards.nctm.org/Previous/CurrEvStds/evals9.htm

You might also be interested in glancing over this article:

Jon R. Star's
"On the Relationship Between Knowing and Doing in Procedural Learning"
http://www.umich.edu/~icls/proceedings/pdf/Star2.pdf

Good luck.

 -Roya Salehi, for the T2T service


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