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Pre-Service Teachers' Understanding of Fraction Operations: Providing Justification for Common Algorithms
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Whitehead, Ashley N.; Walkowiak, Temple A. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
This study examined pre-service elementary teachers' change in their understanding of fraction operations while taking a mathematics methods course. Specifically, their explanations and justifications for common algorithms for multiplication and division of fractions were coded using an existing framework (SOLO; Biggs, 1999) for the assessment of…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Fractions, Mathematics Instruction, Mathematical Concepts