Patrick Groff
San Diego State University
63 Papers
260 Citations
Patrick Groff is an academic researcher from San Diego State University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Reading (process) & Spelling. The author has an hindex of 8, co-authored 63 publications.
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Papers
Is Teaching Fractions a Waste of Time
TL;DR: This article investigated the reasons given for the necessity of teaching fractions in this fashion and revealed the extent of this pressure on teachers by partisans of this instruction and found that popular middle grade mathematics texts, I discovered, to devote from 15 to 25 percent of their pages to fractions study Furthermore, standardized tests of mathematics are loaded with items that
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Teaching phonics: letter-to-phoneme, phoneme-to-letter, or both?
TL;DR: The authors discusses whether or not beginning readers learn phonics best through instructional approaches that teach students to sound out letters, spell words, or combine the two, and concludes that caution is in order as experimental research assessing the effectiveness of each approach has yet to be conducted.
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