Mathematics educators and writers of mathematics education policy documents continue to emphasize the importance of teachers focusing on and using student thinking to inform their instructional decisions and interactions with students. In this paper, we characterize the interactions between a teacher and student(s) that exhibit this focus.…

In this study, we examine one teacher's opportunities to develop a coherent understanding of proportional situations through connection making in professional development (PD) and the ways in which those experiences were evidenced in her own classroom practice teaching the same task from PD. Data from both settings were analyzed using a framework…

Although emerging consensus exists that practice-based approaches to teacher preparation assist in closing the distance between university coursework and fieldwork experiences and in assuring that future teachers learn to implement innovative research-based instructional strategies, little empirical research has investigated teacher learning from…

This study explored prospective elementary teachers' perspectives on real-life connections in the case of story problems. A series of tasks were designed to uncover the participants' collective perceptions of real-life connections by speculating on participants' emerging beliefs about real-life connections and how their beliefs were reflected in…

This article analyzes the experiences of prospective secondary mathematics teachers during a teaching methods course, offered prior to their student teaching, but involving actual teaching and reflexive analysis of this teaching. The study focuses on the pedagogical difficulties that arose during their teaching, in which prospective teachers…