Book Description

This thesis presents the suggestion of implementing daily mathematics journal writing into the fourth grade classroom. Journal writing gives students further opportunity to extend their mathematical thinking and reasoning. Students can state the objective, important vocabulary, examples and non-examples along with what they found confusing. Teachers can have another data point to gauge students' mathematical understanding of the topics taught and provide meaningful feedback to help advance student knowledge of the concepts. Through this thesis, the reader can see if the implementation of daily math journal writing had a positive effect on students' mathematical achievement as evidenced by a standardized assessment, based on this research.