ERIC Number: ED584580
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Publication Date: 2013-Nov
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Pre-Service Teachers' Meanings and Non-Canonical Graphs
Moore, Kevin C.; Liss, David R., II; Silverman, Jason; Paoletti, Teo; LaForest, Kevin R.; Musgrave, Stacy
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (35th, Chicago, IL, Nov 14-17, 2013)
Research continues to illustrate the important role of covariational and quantitative reasoning in the context of function and graphing. The same body of literature has emphasized that students and teachers often construct meanings for function and graphing that do not foreground these reasoning processes. In order to gain deeper insights into such meanings, we conducted clinical interviews with ten pre-service secondary teachers. In the present work, we illustrate the construct of shape thinking in relation to their graphing activity during the clinical interviews. We draw particular attention to the implications of shape thinking, including constraints generated by meanings rooted in such thinking, when confronted with noncanonical situations. [For the complete proceedings, see ED584443.]
Descriptors: Graphs, Mathematics, Preservice Teachers, Secondary Education, Logical Thinking, Interviews
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/
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Education Level: Higher Education
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Language: English
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