Brief Reports: Preservice Teachers' Misconceptions in Solving Verbal Problems in Multiplication and Division.

Graeber, Anna O.; And Others

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Publication Date: 1989

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Brief Reports: Preservice Teachers' Misconceptions in Solving Verbal Problems in Multiplication and Division.

Graeber, Anna O.; And Others

Journal for Research in Mathematics Education, v20 n1 p95-102 Jan 1989

Studied were the misconceptions that preservice elementary teachers have about multiplication and division. Results indicated that they are influenced by the same primitive models as students; the most common errors made by both groups are quite similar. (MNS)

Descriptors: Cognitive Structures, College Students, Computation, Concept Formation, Division, Error Patterns, Higher Education, Mathematics Instruction, Misconceptions, Multiplication, Preservice Teacher Education

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Language: English

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