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50 Years of ERIC
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Redefining the Whole: Common Errors in Elementary Preservice Teachers' Self-Authored Word Problems for Fraction Subtraction
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Dixon, Juli K.; Andreasen, Janet B.; Avila, Cheryl L.; Bawatneh, Zyad; Deichert, Deana L.; Howse, Tashana D.; Turner, Mercedes Sotillo – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2014
A goal of this study was to examine elementary preservice teachers' (PSTs) ability to contextualize and decontextualize fraction subtraction by asking them to write word problems to represent fraction subtraction expressions and to choose prewritten word problems to support given fraction subtraction expressions. Three themes emerged from the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Subtraction
Sustaining Social and Sociomathematical Norms with Prospective Elementary Teachers in a Mathematics Content Course
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Roy, George J.; Tobias, Jennifer M.; Safi, Farshid; Dixon, Juli K. – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2014
As students contribute to social and sociomathematical norms, they will often reorganize their own understandings. As such, the purpose of this article is to describe the ways in which prospective elementary teachers contributed to the norms that were established and "re"-established throughout an entire semester in an undergraduate…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Social Influences