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Whitacre, Ian; Nickerson, Susan D. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2016
We report on interview results from a classroom teaching experiment in a Number and Operations course for prospective elementary teachers. Improving the number sense of this population is an important goal for mathematics teacher education, and researchers have found this goal to be difficult to accomplish. In earlier work, we devised a local…
Descriptors: Interviews, Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Numbers
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