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Publication Date: 2016
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Examining Middle School Pre-Service Teachers' Knowledge of Fraction Division Interpretations
Alenazi, Ali
International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, v47 n5 p696-716 2016
This study investigated 11 pre-service middle school teachers' solution strategies for exploring their knowledge of fraction division interpretations. Each participant solved six fraction division problems. The problems were organized into two sets: symbolic problems (involving numbers only) and contextual problems (involving measurement interpretation and the determination of unit rate interpretation). Results showed that most of the participants exhibited a great amount of procedural knowledge as they applied algorithms to obtain the correct answers to the symbolic problems. They also exhibited a great amount of conceptual understanding of how and why they obtained the correct answers to the contextual problems. However, the pre-service middle school teachers neither provided interpretations to the symbolic problems nor accepted that the contextual problems involved fraction division operation. The results suggest that the measurement and rate concepts were often unlinked to fraction division.
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Middle School Teachers, Numeracy, Knowledge Level, Fractions, Arithmetic, Mathematical Formulas, Teacher Education Programs, Problem Solving, Mathematics Skills, Computation
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education; Middle Schools; Secondary Education; Junior High Schools
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Language: English
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