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Lo, Jane-Jane; Luo, Fenqjen – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2012
Prospective elementary teachers must understand fraction division deeply in order to meaningfully teach this topic to their future students. This paper explores the nature of the subject content knowledge of fraction division possessed by a group of Taiwanese prospective elementary teachers at the beginning of their mathematics methods course. The…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Methods Courses, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers
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Luo, Fenqjen; Lo, Jane-Jane; Leu, Yuh-Chyn – School Science and Mathematics, 2011
The purpose of this paper is to show the similarities as well as the differences of fundamental fraction knowledge owned by preservice elementary teachers from the United States (N = 89) and Taiwan (N = 85). To this end, we examined and compared their performance on an instrument including 15 multiple-choice test items. The items were categorized…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Test Items, Multiple Choice Tests
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Lin, Cheng-Yao; Luo, Fenqjen; Lo, Jane-Jane; Yang, Der-Ching – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2011
This study investigated and compared the geometry knowledge and levels of pre-service elementary teachers from the United States and Taiwan. Forty pre-service teachers in Taiwan and 48 pre-service teachers in the United States at the beginning of their teacher education programs completed the Entering Geometry Test (EGT) and the van Hiele Geometry…
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Foreign Countries, Geometric Concepts, Geometry