On the Way to Observe How Future Primary School Teachers Reason about Fractions

Autor/inn/en	Samková, Libuše; Tichá, Marie
Titel	On the Way to Observe How Future Primary School Teachers Reason about Fractions
Quelle	In: Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science, 10 (2017) 4, S.93-100 (8 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	2336-2375
Schlagwörter	Preservice Teachers; Elementary School Teachers; Student Attitudes; Fractions; Mathematics Instruction; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Mathematics; Teaching Methods; Mathematical Concepts; Cartoons; Problem Solving; Thinking Skills; Czech Republic + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Elementary school; Teacher; Teachers; Grundschule; Volksschule; Lehrer; Lehrerin; Lehrende; Schülerverhalten; Bruchrechnung; Mathematics lessons; Mathematikunterricht; Ausland; Elementare Mathematik; Schulmathematik; Teaching method; Lehrmethode; Unterrichtsmethode; Zeichentrickfilm; Problemlösen; Denkfähigkeit; Tschechische Republik
Abstract	In our contribution we focus on the possibility to use an educational tool called Concept Cartoons in future primary school teachers' education, as an instrument for observing how future primary school teachers reason about fractions. In the introduction section we present Concept Cartoons, and also the primary school level of the fractions topic. In the first part of the research we analyse data obtained when future primary school teachers were solving a problem in the Concept Cartoon form. The task which we adapted to this form belongs to primary school mathematics, it focuses on the concept of a fraction per se (on the parts-and-whole decision and on comparison of two pre-partitioned models with diverse wholes). Using Concept Cartoons, we can observe which statements about the issue our respondents consider as correct, and which kinds of reasoning they use in their justifications. In the second part of the research we analyse problems that the respondents themselves posed in the Concept Cartoon form, with particular focus on tasks devoted to fractions. (As Provided).
Anmerkungen	Czech University of Life Sciences Prague. Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká 129, Prague 6 - Suchdol 165 00, Czech Republic. e-mail: editor@eriesjournal.com; Web site: https://www.eriesjournal.com/index.php/eries
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2020/1/01