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Özel, Zeynep; Yilmaz, Aysenur; Isiksal-Bostan, Mine; Özkan, Betül – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2022
This study aimed to investigate the specialized content knowledge of pre-service primary school teachers about multiplication through problem posing and the justification for the accuracy of the multiplication of a two-digit number and a single-digit number. The research questions were formulated based on the theoretical framework of Ball and her…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Elementary School Mathematics, Multiplication
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Bütüner, Suphi Önder – REDIMAT - Journal of Research in Mathematics Education, 2021
In this study, Turkish and Singaporean textbooks were compared in terms of teaching content for multiplying fractions, a subject that most students have difficulty in understanding. The study analyzed the 6th-grade mathematics textbook published by the Turkish Ministry of National Education and its Singaporean counterpart. While the Singaporean…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Textbook Content, Elementary School Mathematics, Mathematics Materials
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Incikabi, Lütfi; Ayanoglu, Perihan; Uysal, Ramazan – International Electronic Journal of Elementary Education, 2020
This study aimed to reveal the conceptual and operational conceptions of sixth-grade students in the process of division. The focus of the study included the strategies used in the division process, the students' understanding of the division algorithm, and their ability to interpret the remainder in a real-life context. Being qualitative in…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Middle School Students, Grade 6, Mathematics Skills
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Bal, Ayten Pinar – Education Quarterly Reviews, 2021
The aim of this study is to examine the semantic structures used by mathematics teacher candidates to transform algebraic expressions into verbal problems. The research is a descriptive study in the survey model, which is one of the quantitative research types. The study group of the research consists of 165 teacher candidates studying in the…
Descriptors: Semantics, Preservice Teachers, Algebra, Mathematics Instruction
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Arican, Muhammet; Koklu, Oguz; Olmez, Ibrahim Burak; Baltaci, Serdal – International Journal of Research in Education and Science, 2018
Proportional relationships and geometric similarity are two of the critical topics in school mathematics. Students and even teachers often struggle with recognizing the proportional relationships in geometric similarity problems. The purpose of this study was to investigate preservice middle-grades mathematics teachers' (PSTs) strategies when…
Descriptors: Mathematics Instruction, Geometric Concepts, Middle School Teachers, Preservice Teachers
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Tekin Sitrava, Reyhan – European Journal of Educational Research, 2018
The aim of this qualitative case study is to investigate prospective mathematics teachers' subject matter knowledge of the underlying concepts of standard and nonstandard algorithms used to solve the problems with whole numbers. Twenty three prospective mathematics teachers enrolled in the Elementary Mathematics Education Program of one of the…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Case Studies, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers
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Isik, Cemalettin – Higher Education Studies, 2018
In this study, it was aimed to analyze the structure of prospective middle school mathematics teachers' problems posed with regard to given symbolic representation including addition and subtraction operations with integers. The study conducted with 96 last grade elementary school mathematics teacher candidates studying in Faculty of Education of…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Semi Structured Interviews, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers