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Bartolini Bussi, Maria G. – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 2011
In this article, I discuss a case of pre-primary and primary school teacher education concerning place value in number representation. In primary school (in Italy, in grades 1 and 2), the topic is usually introduced by means of manipulatives (for instance, abaci and base ten blocks). But it is well known that no artefact is transparent for…
Descriptors: Teacher Education, Evaluators, Early Childhood Education, Workshops
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Bartolini Bussi, Maria G.; Baccaglini-Frank, Anna – ZDM: The International Journal on Mathematics Education, 2015
In early years schooling it is becoming common to propose activities that involve moving along paths, or programming robots to do so. In order to promote continuity towards the introduction of geometry in primary school, we developed a long-term teaching experiment (with 15 sessions) carried out over 4 months in a first grade classroom in northern…
Descriptors: Geometry, Geometric Concepts, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Students