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Erik Jacobson – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2024
This study used units coordination as a theoretical lens to investigate how whole number and fraction reasoning may be related for preservice teachers at the conclusion of a math methods class. The study contributes quantitative evidence that units coordination provides a common foundation for both mathematical knowledge for teaching whole number…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Methods Courses
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Austin, Pam; Carbone, Rose Elaine; Webb, Paul – African Journal of Research in Mathematics, Science and Technology Education, 2011
This research study, carried out in South Africa and the United States of America, investigated issues that may hamper prospective primary school teachers from writing acceptable problem posing scenarios involving the addition of fractions. Pre-service teachers (n=44) were asked to compose real life problems involving the addition of two fractions…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Word Problems (Mathematics), Addition, Fractions