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Publication Date: 2020-Dec
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An Approach to Density in Decimal Numbers: A Study with Pre-Service Teachers = Un acercamiento a la densidad en los números decimales: un estudio con profesores en formación
Suárez-Rodríguez, Mayra; Figueras, Olimpia
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (42nd, Mazatlán, Mexico and Online, May 27-Jun 6, 2021)
Researchers, who have studied the understanding of the density property in the set of decimal numbers, have shown that the student uses the property of the discrete of natural numbers to solve tasks related to density. So, a restructuring of concepts is necessary, that is, a conceptual change from "the discrete" to "the dense". This report presents evidence from ten pre-service teachers from Mexico City that this change can initiate through the implementation of a didactic sequence. The pre-service teachers managed to visualize that a decimal number can be found in an interval. Consequently, they were able to conceive an infinity. However, several of them persisted with the idea of the existence of a successor in the set of decimal numbers. [For the complete proceedings, see ED629884.]
Descriptors: Arithmetic, Numbers, Preservice Teachers, Mathematics Instruction, Intervals, Foreign Countries, Mathematics Teachers
North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education. e-mail: pmena.steeringcommittee@gmail.com; Web site: http://www.pmena.org/
Publication Type: Speeches/Meeting Papers; Reports - Research; Multilingual/Bilingual Materials
Education Level: Higher Education; Postsecondary Education
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Language: EnglishSpanish
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Identifiers - Location: Mexico (Mexico City)
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