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Prospective Elementary Teachers Develop Improved Number Sense in Reasoning about Fraction Magnitude
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Whitacre, Ian; Nickerson, Susan D. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2011
We report on results of a classroom teaching experiment in a mathematics content course for prospective elementary teachers. A local instruction theory for the development of number sense, which was previously applied to whole-number mental computation, was extended to inform instruction concerning reasoning about fraction magnitude. We found that…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematical Logic, Fractions