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Joung, Eunmi; Kim, Young Rae – International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science and Technology, 2022
The purposes of this study are to report current Preservice Teachers' (PTs) decimal abilities regarding the types of error patterns that they commit and to analyze characteristics of the errors in the problems posed for multiplication and division in decimals. We have determined common concept- and procedure-based errors made by the PTs. 37 PTs in…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Arithmetic, Fractions
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Schack, Edna O.; Fisher, Molly H.; Thomas, Jonathan N.; Eisenhardt, Sara; Tassell, Janet; Yoder, Margaret – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2013
The goal of this study is to develop the professional noticing abilities of prospective elementary school teachers in the context of the Stages of Early Arithmetic Learning. In their mathematics methods course, ninety-four prospective elementary school teachers from three institutions participated in a researcher-developed five-session module that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics
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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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Fisher, Molly H.; Schack, Edna O.; Thomas, Jonathan; Eisenhardt, Sara; Yoder, Margaret; Tassell, Janet – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2012
The goal of this study is to develop the professional noticing abilities of preservice elementary teachers in the context of the Stages of Early Arithmetic Learning. In their mathematics methods course, the preservice elementary teachers participated in a researcher-developed multi-session module that progressively nests the three interrelated…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Elementary School Mathematics, Arithmetic
Zazkis, Rina; Campbell, Stephen – 1994
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the development of elementary teacher's content knowledge of mathematics. Individual clinical interviews were conducted with preservice elementary teachers (N=21) enrolled in a professional development course called "Foundations of Mathematics for Teachers." An instrument that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)