Productive Seeds in Preservice Teachers' Reasoning about Fraction Comparisons [Konferenzbericht] Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (42nd, Mazatlán, Mexico and Online, May 27-Jun 6, 2021).

Autor/inn/en	Whitacre, Ian; Findley, Kelly; Atabas, Sebnem
Titel	Productive Seeds in Preservice Teachers' Reasoning about Fraction Comparisons [Konferenzbericht] Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (42nd, Mazatlán, Mexico and Online, May 27-Jun 6, 2021).
Quelle	(2020), (8 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Mathematics Skills; Mathematical Logic; Fractions; Number Concepts; Arithmetic; Preservice Teacher Education + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Mathmatics achievement; Mathematics ability; Mathematische Kompetenz; Mathematical logics; Mathematische Logik; Bruchrechnung; Number concept; Zahlbegriff; Addition; Arithmetik; Arithmetikunterricht; Rechnen; Lehramtsstudiengang; Lehrerausbildung
Abstract	Reasoning about fraction magnitude is an important topic in elementary mathematics because it lays the foundations for meaningful reasoning about fraction operations. Much of the research literature has reported deficits in preservice elementary teachers' (PSTs) knowledge of fractions and has given little attention to the productive resources that PSTs bring to teacher education. We surveyed 26 PSTs using a set of 9 fraction-comparison tasks. We report the frequency of complete strategy-arguments and the perspectives (ways of reasoning) used for each item. We further examine incomplete strategy-arguments, noting substantial evidence for productive seeds of reasoning. Using data from interviews with 10 of these PSTs, we identify evidence suggesting these seeds are, in fact, productive in that they provide foundations for further development. We argue that this type of research is needed in order to further mathematics teacher education. [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.] (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2024/1/01