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Publication Date: 2012
Pages: 19
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Prospective Elementary School Teachers' Proportional Reasoning
Valverde, Gabriela; Castro, Encarnación
PNA, v7 n1 p1-19 2012
We present the findings of a study on prospective elementary teachers' proportional reasoning. After describing some of the teachers' performance in solving multiplicative structure problems that involve ratios and relations of direct proportionality between quantities, we were able to establish classifications of their answers according to various categories of proportional reasoning.
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Thinking Skills, Performance Based Assessment, Multiplication, Problem Solving, Disproportionate Representation, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Classification, Observation, Cognitive Style, Mathematical Aptitude, Mathematics Skills, Error Patterns, Mathematical Formulas, Foreign Countries
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Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
Education Level: Elementary Education; Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: English
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