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Casey, Stephanie; Lesseig, Kristin; Monson, Debra; Krupa, Erin E. – Mathematics Teacher Education and Development, 2018
This study examined proposed teacher responses to students' work to investigate how they respond, what characteristics of a good response are more difficult than others to achieve, and whether particular student error types are more difficult to respond to appropriately. Sixteen preservice secondary mathematics teachers' proposed responses to five…
Descriptors: Secondary School Mathematics, Preservice Teacher Education, Preservice Teachers, Equations (Mathematics)
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Cramer, Kathleen; Monson, Debra; Whitney, Stephanie; Leavitt, Seth; Wyberg, Terry – Mathematics Teaching in the Middle School, 2010
Fraction division is generally introduced in sixth or seventh grade with this rule: "Invert and multiply." The authors examined current commercial curricula and found that few textbooks use context as a way to build meaning for the division of fractions. When context is used, the connection between the invert-and-multiply rule and the context is…
Descriptors: Textbooks, Secondary School Mathematics, Arithmetic, Mathematics Instruction