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Gvozdic, Katarina; Sander, Emmanuel – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2018
Intuitive conceptions in mathematics guide the interpretation of mathematical concepts. We investigated if they bias teachers' conceptions of student arithmetic word problem solving strategies, which should be part of their pedagogical content knowledge (PCK). In individual interviews, teachers and non-teaching adults were asked to describe…
Descriptors: Intuition, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Interviews, Teacher Attitudes
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Sharma, S. V. – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2006
Concerns about students' difficulties in statistical reasoning led to a study which explored form five (14- to 16-year-olds) students' ideas in this area. The study focussed on descriptive statistics, graphical representations, and probability. This paper presents and discusses the ways in which students made sense of information in graphical…
Descriptors: Mathematical Concepts, Probability, Student Attitudes, Tables (Data)