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Jérôme Proulx – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2024
In their recent article on teachers' proportional reasoning, Copur-Gencturk et al. (2022) draw attention to a type of strategy that they call "relative", lodged right between additive and multiplicative thinking. This strategy raised interest in our research team, as it aligned well and helped give stronger meaning to some strategies…
Descriptors: Logical Thinking, Mathematics Skills, Addition, Multiplication
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Kertil, Mahmut; Erbas, Ayhan Kursat; Cetinkaya, Bulent – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2023
This study examined a cohort of middle school pre-service mathematics teachers' understanding of the rate of change as they engaged in a model development sequence. By adopting a design-based research perspective, a model development sequence on the concept of rate of change has been designed and implemented as part of a mathematical modeling…
Descriptors: Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Teachers, Middle School Mathematics, Mathematics Instruction
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Kang, Rui; Liu, Di – International Journal of Science and Mathematics Education, 2018
This article describes a study of how Chinese preservice teachers unpacked a learning goal pertaining to adding fractions and understanding the concepts underlying the operation. Based on work in the USA by Morris, Hiebert, and Spizter ("Journal for Research in Mathematics Education," 40(5), 491-529, 2009), 50 Chinese preservice teachers…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Preservice Teachers, Fractions, Addition