On Fractions and Non-Standard Representations: Pre-Service Teachers' Concepts.

Khoury, Helen A.; Zazkis, Rina

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ERIC Number: EJ495486

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Publication Date: 1994

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On Fractions and Non-Standard Representations: Pre-Service Teachers' Concepts.

Khoury, Helen A.; Zazkis, Rina

Educational Studies in Mathematics, v27 n2 p191-204 Sep 1994

Investigated (n=124) preservice school teachers' reasoning and concepts of invariance of fractional numbers under numeration systems in different bases. The majority of students believed that fractions change their numerical value under different symbolic representations. (Author/MKR)

Descriptors: Cognitive Style, College Students, Elementary Secondary Education, Fractions, Higher Education, Interviews, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Tests, Number Systems, Preservice Teacher Education, Schemata (Cognition), Thinking Skills

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Language: English

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