ERIC Number: EJ1445575
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2024-Nov
Pages: 15
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ISSN: ISSN-1863-9690
EISSN: EISSN-1863-9704
Prospective Secondary Teachers' Noticing of Students' Thinking about the Limit Concept: Pathways of Development
Ceneida Fernández; Mar Moreno; Gloria Sánchez-Matamoros
ZDM: Mathematics Education, v56 n6 p1137-1151 2024
Research has shown that there is a need to examine prospective teachers' development trajectories related to noticing expertise. An important content in the Spanish high school curriculum (16-18 years old) is the limit concept. Given the importance of this concept in the curriculum and the difficulties some prospective teachers have, developing their noticing of students' mathematical thinking of this concept in teacher education programs is crucial to achieve high school student mathematics achievement. This study examines how prospective secondary school mathematics teachers (PTs) notice students' mathematical thinking about the limit concept as they participated in a teaching module. PTs had to anticipate and interpret students' mathematical understanding and make instructional decisions to support students' conceptual progression using information about high school students' understanding of the limit concept. We examined PTs changes related to how they anticipated, interpreted and made instructional decisions during the teaching module. We identified a change in how PTs conceived the understanding of the dynamic limit concept: from all-or-nothing dichotomy to progression; and a change in the instructional decisions they made: from decisions focused on changing the type of discontinuity to conceptual decisions. These changes allow us to characterise development noticing pathways. Our findings also help to identify the teaching module characteristics that support the development of PTs noticing.
Descriptors: Secondary School Teachers, Adolescents, Secondary School Students, Thinking Skills, Cues, Mathematical Logic, Mathematical Concepts, Teaching Methods, Secondary School Mathematics, Decision Making Skills, Teacher Characteristics
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Secondary Education
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Language: English
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