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Colonnese, Madelyn W.; Casto, Amanda R. – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2023
Mathematical writing is one way for primary students to communicate their mathematical thinking. Research in the field of writing has shown that to become an effective teacher of writing, preservice teachers must have experience engaging in the kinds of writing given to their students. The study reported in this paper explored how 27 preservice…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Mathematics Education, Mathematics Skills
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Zeybek, Zulfiye – International Journal for Mathematics Teaching and Learning, 2016
This study aimed to document pre-service elementary teachers' (PSTs'), who are going to teach K-5, ability to construct as well as evaluate justifications varied in terms of levels of sophistication. Additionally, this study aimed to investigate how PSTs' knowledge of content in which they were being asked to prove influenced their ability to…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Elementary School Teachers, Mathematics Skills, Mathematical Logic
Bitner, Betty L. – 1992
The purpose of this causal-comparative study was to compare reasoning level, American College Test (ACT) science, process skills, and physical science misconceptions of preservice elementary and secondary science teachers and to investigate gender differences. The stratified randomly drawn sample (n=68) consisted of preservice elementary and…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Logical Thinking
Zazkis, Rina; Campbell, Stephen – 1994
This study contributes to a growing body of research on the development of elementary teacher's content knowledge of mathematics. Individual clinical interviews were conducted with preservice elementary teachers (N=21) enrolled in a professional development course called "Foundations of Mathematics for Teachers." An instrument that…
Descriptors: Abstract Reasoning, Arithmetic, Concept Formation, Constructivism (Learning)