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Livy, Sharyn; Herbert, Sandra – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2014
Understanding the development of pre-service teachers' mathematical content knowledge (MCK) is important for improving primary mathematics' teacher education. This paper reports on a case study, Rose and her opportunities to develop MCK during the four years of her program. Program opportunities to promote MCK when planning and practicing primary…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge
Herbert, Sandra – Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia, 2010
Rate is an important, but difficult mathematical concept. More than twenty years of research, especially with calculus students, report difficulties with this concept. This paper reports on an alternative analysis, from the perspective of multiple representations and context, of interviews probing twenty Victorian Year 10 students' conceptions of…
Descriptors: Mathematics Education, Foreign Countries, Mathematical Concepts, Calculus