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WGU D180 Task 2 |Passed on First Attempt |Latest Update with Complete Solution
Writing an Annotated Bibliography Angela Taylor MSCIN Program, Western Governors University
D180: Educational Research
June 2, 2025
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 1 / 2
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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
study was limited to one type of manipulative. In this source, students were not exposed to multiple types or offered options.Furman, C. (2017). Making Sense With Manipulatives: Developing Mathematical Experiences for Early Childhood Teachers. Journal of Education and Culture 33 (2), 67-86.
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5703/educationculture.33.2.0067
This article is published in the Education and Culture Journal from 2017. It is applicable to the proposed capstone research because the article discusses how early childhood math instruction is important to help children make sense of mathematical concepts. The findings go on to reveal that manipulatives are often brought into the early childhood classroom to promote “hands-on” learning without facilitating making sense. Students need to make sense of math and not simply go through the motions.A strength of this article is to show that when children make sense of mathematics, they
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