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Baldinger, Erin E. – North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, 2015
The Common Core Standards require students to learn content and mathematical practices, and so teachers must have content knowledge and be able to engage in practices themselves. This raises the question of how novice teachers learn to engage in mathematical practices. I investigate pre-service secondary teacher learning of mathematical practices…
Descriptors: Common Core State Standards, Mathematics Instruction, Pedagogical Content Knowledge, Preservice Teachers
Ralston, Nicole C. – ProQuest LLC, 2013
Elementary school students often exhibit a wide variety of different conceptions associated with algebraic thinking that their teachers fail to recognize or understand (Smith, diSessa, & Roschelle, 1994). It is crucial that elementary school teachers possess knowledge of the variety of different student conceptions and also boast abilities to…
Descriptors: Elementary School Students, Elementary School Teachers, Teacher Surveys, Algebra
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Lin, Shih-Yin; Singh, Chandralekha – Physical Review Special Topics - Physics Education Research, 2013
In this study, we examine introductory physics students' ability to perform analogical reasoning between two isomorphic problems which employ the same underlying physics principles but have different surface features. 382 students from a calculus-based and an algebra-based introductory physics course were administered a quiz in the recitation…
Descriptors: Physics, Science Instruction, Problem Solving, Scaffolding (Teaching Technique)