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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2014 Research Conference

Please note: The NCTM conference program is subject to change.

Tuesday, April 8, 2014: 8:50 AM
Room 206 ( Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Gloriana Gonzalez , University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
Description:
The study examines geometry teachers’ reactions to an animated vignette where a class solves a problem about isosceles right triangles. Participants discussed students’ difficulties remembering procedures with radicals and identified a teaching problem: letting students use approximations could compromise students’ identification of numerical patterns. Participants proposed ways to support students.