Much Ado about Nothing: Preservice Elementary School Teachers' Concept of Zero.

Wheeler, Margariete Montague; Feghali, Issa

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Publication Date: 1983-May

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Much Ado about Nothing: Preservice Elementary School Teachers' Concept of Zero.

Wheeler, Margariete Montague; Feghali, Issa

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, v14 n3 p147-55 May 1983

Group tests and individual interviews were conducted with 52 preservice elementary teachers to ascertain their knowledge of zero. They were reluctant to accept zero as an attribute for classification, were confused about whether zero is a number, and showed stable patterns of computational error. (MNS)

Descriptors: Educational Research, Elementary Education, Elementary School Mathematics, Interviews, Mathematics Instruction, Number Concepts, Preservice Teacher Education, Teacher Education, Testing

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