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The Subject Matter Preparation of Prospective Mathematics Teachers: Challenging the Myths.
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Ball, Deborah Loewenberg – 1988
This paper presents results from a study of 19 teacher education students' knowledge of mathematics and discusses an analytic framework for examing and appraising teachers' and prospective teachers' subject matter knowledge. Participants in the study were 10 elementary education majors and 9 mathematics majors or minors who were preparing to teach…
Descriptors: Algebra, Concept Formation, Division, Educational Research
On the Pedagogical Insight of Mathematicians: "Interaction" and "Transition from the Concrete to the Abstract"
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Iannone, Paola; Nardi, Elena – Journal of Mathematical Behavior, 2005
In this paper, we draw on a 16-month study funded by the Learning and Teaching Support Network in the UK and entitled "Mathematicians as Educational Co-Researchers." The study's aims were two-fold. Primarily we intended to explore mathematicians' reflections on issues identified in the literature as highly topical in the area of teaching…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Mathematics Education, Focus Groups, Researchers
"Pies Are Hard To Find Out about..." An Inquiry into Children's Understanding of the Nature of Fractions. Technical Report.
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Davidson, Patricia S.; And Others – 1985
The Education Technology Center (ETC) Fractions Group works to investigate well-documented difficulties that children have in understanding fractions. A central assumption underlying this group's inquiry is that students' difficulties in manipulating fractions arise from their lack of understanding about the nature of fractions. In order to learn…
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Cognitive Processes, Cognitive Structures, Elementary School Mathematics