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Dixon, Juli K.; Andreasen, Janet B.; Avila, Cheryl L.; Bawatneh, Zyad; Deichert, Deana L.; Howse, Tashana D.; Turner, Mercedes Sotillo – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2014
A goal of this study was to examine elementary preservice teachers' (PSTs) ability to contextualize and decontextualize fraction subtraction by asking them to write word problems to represent fraction subtraction expressions and to choose prewritten word problems to support given fraction subtraction expressions. Three themes emerged from the…
Descriptors: Elementary School Teachers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematical Concepts, Subtraction
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Schreiber, Iris; Tsamir, Pessia – Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2012
The paper describes a study that examined the impact of two teaching approaches "focus on correctness" and "discuss errors" on secondary students' solutions to algebraic inequalities. Two groups of 10th graders were taught by two experienced teachers, Corry and Era, who followed their different didactical beliefs about the use of errors in…
Descriptors: Teaching Methods, Grade 10, Word Problems (Mathematics), Mathematics Education