ERIC Number: EJ1033069
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2014-Apr-23
Pages: 8
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 52
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ISSN: EISSN-1990-3839
Mathematics Teacher Candidates' Skills of Using Multiple Representations for Division of Fractions
Biber, Abdullah Çagri
Educational Research and Reviews, v9 n8 p237-244 Apr 2014
The aim of this study is to reveal teacher candidates' preference regarding uses of verbal, symbolic, number line, and/or model representations of fraction divisions, and to investigate their skill of transferring from one representation type to the others. Case study was used as the research method in this study. The case that is examined within the scope of the study involves the performances of students in transiting between different representations of the fraction division. The study group consisted a total of 71 mathematics teacher candidates who were students in a university in Turkey. Among the results of the study were that the comparison of the performances of the pre-service teachers in transitions between representations reveals that the pre-service teachers were quite successful in expressing a fraction whose verbal or numeric (symbolic) expression was provided through other types of representation, but they were very unsuccessful in representing the fractions that were provided via models or on number lines through other types of representation.
Descriptors: Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Teaching Methods, Teaching Skills, Arithmetic, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Case Studies, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Tests, Mathematics Skills, Symbols (Mathematics)
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Elementary Education
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Turkey

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