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When Intuition Beats Logic: Prospective Teachers' Awareness of Their "Same Sides-Same Angles" Solutions
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Tsamir, Pessia – Educational Studies in Mathematics, 2007
This paper indicates that prospective teachers' familiarity with theoretical models of students' ways of thinking may contribute to their mathematical subject matter knowledge. This study introduces the intuitive rules theory to address the intuitive, "same sides-same angles" solutions that prospective teachers of secondary school mathematics come…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Familiarity, Mathematics Education, Mathematical Models