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Reeder, Stacy; Bateiha, Summer – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2016
This investigation examined the degree to which prospective elementary teachers had developed a meaningful and conceptual understanding of what integers are and explored their development of models for multiplication with integers that are related to everyday activities. Additionally, this study explored how these understandings informed…
Descriptors: Numbers, Preservice Teachers, Preservice Teacher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching
Tsao, Yea-Ling; Lin, Yi-Chung – Online Submission, 2012
The goal of this study was to investigate understanding of in-service elementary school teachers in Taiwan about number sense, teaching strategies of number sense and the development of number sense of students. Data were gathered through interviews of nine elementary mathematics teachers, regarding their understanding about number sense. The data…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Number Concepts, Mathematics Teachers, Elementary School Teachers
Sowder, Judith T.; Philipp, Randolph A.; Armstrong, Barbara E.; Schappelle, Bonnie P. – 1998
This book presents research undertaken as a two-year investigation of two sets of related questions about teacher understanding concerning rational numbers, quantity, and proportional reasoning and how this knowledge affects teachers' awareness of how students learn. Chapter 2 provides a conceptual framework. Chapter 3 presents detailed…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Intermediate Grades, Junior High Schools, Knowledge Base for Teaching