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Early Steps Count: Teaching Arithmetic to Prepare Students for Algebra

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Teaching Strategies

This slide is a bar graph which shows that 72% of American teachers and 8% of Chinese teachers use a procedural explanation when helping students who are confused about multi-digit multiplication. It also shows that 35% of American teachers and 91% of Chinese teachers use a conceptual approach when helping students who are confused about multi-digit multiplication.