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Duatepe-Paksu, Asuman; Iymen, Esra; Pakmak, Gul Sinem – Educational Studies, 2012
This report summarises a study examining preservice elementary teachers' geometry content knowledge with a focus on parallelogram. It was a descriptive study examining 45 preservice teachers' reasoning in the process of determining which quadrilateral can be classified as a parallelogram. Findings have revealed that these elementary teachers do…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary Education, Plane Geometry, Geometric Concepts
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Gutierrez, Angel; Jaime, Adela – Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education, 1999
The way teachers understand mathematics strongly influences their teaching and what pupils learn. Describes the influence of two variables on preservice teachers' performance: (1) the presence of a formal definition; and (2) previous classroom activities that addressed the concept of the altitude of a triangle. (Contains 30 references.)…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Geometric Concepts, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Fuller, Roberta Ann – 1996
The purpose of this study was to characterize and compare novice and experienced elementary teachers' pedagogical knowledge and pedagogical content knowledge of three major topics in mathematics: whole number operation, fractions, and geometry. The study participants were 26 preservice elementary teachers and 28 experienced kindergarten through…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Elementary School Teachers, Fractions