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Publication Date: 2013
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Pre-Service Primary School Teachers' Logical Reasoning Skills
Marchis, Iuliana
Acta Didactica Napocensia, v6 n4 p59-66 2013
Logical reasoning skills are important for a successful mathematical learning and in students' future career. These skills are essential for a primary school teacher, because they need to explain solving methods and solutions to their pupils. In this research we studied pre-service primary school teachers' logical reasoning skills. The results show that only one third of the students gave an argumentation for their answer: a very small percentage gave a complete, correct argumentation for the solution of the problem; one fifth of the students had an incomplete argumentation, missing important steps of the logical reasoning; and one tenth of the students made mistakes in their reasoning. These results highlight the importance of developing future primary school teachers' logical reasoning skills.
Descriptors: Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Logical Thinking, Thinking Skills, Elementary School Teachers, Persuasive Discourse, Mathematical Logic, Problem Solving, Competence, Discourse Analysis, Rhetorical Criticism, Science Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Foreign Countries, Qualitative Research
Babes-Bolyai University. Kogainiceanu 1, Cluj-Napoca, 400084 Romania. e-mail: submit_adn@yahoo.com; Web site: http://adn.teaching.ro
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 - Location: Romania
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