D180
Educational Research
TASK 2
Writing an Annotated Bibliography
Western Governors University
, 2
Research Purpose
The purpose of this research is to create a professional development program to
provide teachers with the knowledge and strategies to incorporate manipulatives into their
math classroom lessons and increase students conceptual understanding. This directly aligns
to my problem statement because many teachers are not properly trained or educated to use
manipulatives in their lessons. This causes them to rely on using instructional strategies that do
not teach conceptual understanding successfully.
Annotated Bibliography
Satsagi, R., & Raines, A. R. (2023). Examining Virtual Manipulatives for Teaching Computations
With Fractions to Children with Mathematics Difficulty. Journal of Learning Disabilities,
56 (4), 295-309. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222194221097710
This is a journal article found in the Journal of Learning Disabilities. It is a peer reviewed
article. This article is relevant to my proposed capstone research because the study discusses
the use of virtual manipulatives, combined with direct instruction for elementary students who
are having some level of difficulty. The outcomes in this source show that all three students
were able to achieve and maintain proficiency of 100% after small break and without the use of
manipulatives. This shows that students were able to take the knowledge from using virtual
manipulatives to problem solve abstractly.
A strength of this source is its ability to show how effective using manipulatives can be
in elementary classroom settings. It shows that students used the manipulatives to assist in
building a stronger conceptual understanding to become proficient. A weakness is that the
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Educational Research
TASK 2
Writing an Annotated Bibliography
Western Governors University
, 2
Research Purpose
The purpose of this research is to create a professional development program to
provide teachers with the knowledge and strategies to incorporate manipulatives into their
math classroom lessons and increase students conceptual understanding. This directly aligns
to my problem statement because many teachers are not properly trained or educated to use
manipulatives in their lessons. This causes them to rely on using instructional strategies that do
not teach conceptual understanding successfully.
Annotated Bibliography
Satsagi, R., & Raines, A. R. (2023). Examining Virtual Manipulatives for Teaching Computations
With Fractions to Children with Mathematics Difficulty. Journal of Learning Disabilities,
56 (4), 295-309. https://doi.org/10.1177/00222194221097710
This is a journal article found in the Journal of Learning Disabilities. It is a peer reviewed
article. This article is relevant to my proposed capstone research because the study discusses
the use of virtual manipulatives, combined with direct instruction for elementary students who
are having some level of difficulty. The outcomes in this source show that all three students
were able to achieve and maintain proficiency of 100% after small break and without the use of
manipulatives. This shows that students were able to take the knowledge from using virtual
manipulatives to problem solve abstractly.
A strength of this source is its ability to show how effective using manipulatives can be
in elementary classroom settings. It shows that students used the manipulatives to assist in
building a stronger conceptual understanding to become proficient. A weakness is that the
This study source was downloaded by 100000901969919 from CourseHero.com on 10-31-2025 20:06:22 GMT -05:00
https://www.coursehero.com/file/250317091/D180-Task-2docx/
