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Tsamir, Pessia; Tirosh, Dina – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2023
This paper reports on concept images of 38 secondary school mathematics prospective teachers, regarding the evenness of numbers. Written assignments, individual interviews, and lesson transcripts uncover salient, erroneous concept images of even numbers as numbers that are two times "something" (i.e., "2i" is an even number),…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Secondary School Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Levenson, Esther S.; Barkai, Ruthi; Tirosh, Dina; Tsamir, Pessia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2022
This study focuses on adults who are neither preschool teachers nor professional caregivers and investigates their beliefs regarding the importance of engaging young children with numerical activities. It also examines the types of numerical activities adults report having observed children engaging with, as well as the types of activities they…
Descriptors: Adults, Beliefs, Young Children, Numbers
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Tsamir, Pessia; Tirosh, Dina; Levenson, Esther S.; Barkai, Ruthi; Tabach, Michal – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2017
This paper describes kindergarten children's engagement with two patterning activities. The first activity includes two tasks in which children are asked to choose possible ways for extending two different repeating patterns and the second activity calls for comparing different pairs of repeating patterns. Children's recognition of the unit of…
Descriptors: Kindergarten, Mathematics Instruction, Pattern Recognition, Mathematical Concepts