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50 Years of ERIC
50 Years of ERIC
The Education Resources Information Center (ERIC) is celebrating its 50th Birthday! First opened on May 15th, 1964 ERIC continues the long tradition of ongoing innovation and enhancement.

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Preservice Teachers' Mathematical Task Posing: An Opportunity for Coordination of Perspectives
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Rutledge, Zachary; Norton, Anderson – Mathematics Educator, 2008
This article provides detailed analysis, from a radical constructivist perspective, of a sequence of letter-writing exchanges between a preservice secondary mathematics teacher and a high school student. This analysis shows the ways in which the preservice teacher gained understanding of the high school student's mathematics and attempted to pose…
Descriptors: Constructivism (Learning), Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
Measuring Task Posing Cycles: Mathematical Letter Writing between Algebra Students and Preservice Teachers
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Norton, Anderson; Rutledge, Zachary – Mathematics Educator, 2006
In a secondary school mathematics teaching methods course, a research team engaged 22 preservice secondary teachers (PSTs) in designing and posing tasks to algebra students through weekly letter writing. The goal of the tasks was for PSTs to elicit responses that would indicate student engagement in the mathematical processes described by NCTM…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, High School Students, Task Analysis