Odds and Ends of Odds and Evens: An Inquiry into Students' Understanding of Even and Odd Numbers.

Zazkis, Rina

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ERIC Number: EJ567984

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Publication Date: 1998

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Odds and Ends of Odds and Evens: An Inquiry into Students' Understanding of Even and Odd Numbers.

Zazkis, Rina

Educational Studies in Mathematics, v36 n1 p73-89 Jun 1998

Examines the differences in preservice elementary school teachers' perceptions between divisibility by two, or evenness, and divisibility by another number. Concludes that the equivalence of the number properties of being even and being divisible by two is not taken for granted; rather, the parity is often perceived as a function of the last digit of the number. (Author/ASK)

Descriptors: Division, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Teachers, Number Concepts, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Teacher Attitudes

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research

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Language: English

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