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Autor/in | Tossavainen, Anne |
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Titel | Student Teachers' Common Content Knowledge for Solving Routine Fraction Tasks |
Quelle | In: LUMAT: International Journal on Math, Science and Technology Education, 10 (2022) 2, S.256-280 (25 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift
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Zusatzinformation | ORCID (Tossavainen, Anne) |
Sprache | englisch |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
ISSN | 2323-7112 |
Schlagwörter | Student Teachers; Foreign Countries; Elementary School Teachers; Fractions; Knowledge Base for Teaching; Teacher Education; College Students; Sweden |
Abstract | This study focuses on the knowledge base that Swedish elementary student teachers demonstrate in their solutions for six routine fraction tasks. The paper investigates the student teachers' common content knowledge of fractions and discusses the implications of the findings. Fraction knowledge that student teachers bring to teacher education has been rarely investigated in the Swedish context. Thus, this study broadens the international view in the field and gives an opportunity to see some worldwide similarities as well as national challenges in student teachers' fraction knowledge. The findings in this study reveal uncertainty and wide differences between the student teachers when solving fraction tasks that they were already familiar with; two of the 59 participants solved correctly all tasks, whereas some of them gave only one or not any correct answer. Moreover, the data indicate general limitations in the participants' basic knowledge in mathematics. For example, many of them make errors in using mathematical symbol writing and different representation forms, and they do not recognize unreasonable answers and incorrect statements. Some participants also seemed to guess at an algorithm to use when they did not remember or understand the correct solution method. (As Provided). |
Anmerkungen | LUMA Centre Finland. University of Helsinki. A.I. Virtasen aukio 1, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland. Tel: +358-50-348-0567; e-mail: editor@lumat.fi; Web site: https://journals.helsinki.fi/lumat |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2024/1/01 |