Papers

May 6th, 2005

Selected papers. Some available to download as pdf files.

Turner, E. E., Junk, D. & Empson, S. B. (2007). The power of Paper-Folding Tasks: Supporting Multiplicative Thinking and Rich Mathematical Discussion. Teaching Children Mathematics, 13(6), 322-329.

Empson, S. B., Junk, D., Dominguez, H., & Turner, E. E. (2006). Fractions as the Coordination of Multiplicatively Related Quantities: A Cross-Sectional Study of Children’s Thinking. Educational Studies in Mathematics, 63, 1-28.

Empson, S. B. & Turner, E. E. (2006). The Emergence of Multiplicative Thinking in Children’s Solutions to Paper Folding Tasks. Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 25, 46-56.

Steinberg, R., Empson, S. B. & Carpenter, T. P. (2004). Inquiry into Children’s Mathematical Thinking as a Means to Teacher Change. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 7(3), 237-267.

Empson, S. B. & Junk, D. (2004). Teachers’ Knowledge of Children’s Mathematics after Implementing a Student-Centered Curriculum. Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 7, 121-144.

Empson, S. B. & Knudsen, J. (2003). Building on Children’s Thinking to Develop Proportional Reasoning. Texas Mathematics Teacher, L(2), 16-21.

Empson, S. B. (2003) Low-Performing Students and Teaching Fractions for Understanding: An Interactional Analysis. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 34, 305-343.

Empson, S. B. (2002). Organizing diversity in early fraction thinking. National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2002 Yearbook. In B. Litwiller & G. Bright (Eds.), Making Sense of Fractions, Ratios and Proportions (pp. 29-40). Reston, VA: NCTM.

Empson, S. B. (2001). Equal Sharing and the Roots of Fraction Equivalence. Teaching Children Mathematics, 7, 421-425.

Empson, S. B. (1999). Equal Sharing and Shared Meaning: The Development of Fraction Concepts in a First-Grade Classroom. Cognition and Instruction, 17, 283-343.

Carpenter, T. P., Franke, M. L., Jacobs, V., Fennema, E. & Empson, S. B. (1998). A Longitudinal Study of Invention and Understanding in Children’s Use of Multidigit Addition and Subtraction Procedures. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 29(1), 3-20.

Fennema, E., Carpenter, T. P., Franke, M., Levi, L., Jacobs, V. & Empson, S. B. (1996). Mathematics Instruction and Teachers’ Beliefs: A Longitudinal Study of Using Children’s Thinking. Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, 27(4), 403-434.