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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2014 Research Conference

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

170- Teachers’ Reasoning about Proportional Relationships as “Variable Parts”

Wednesday, April 9, 2014: 3:30 PM-4:00 PM
Room 220/221/222 ( Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Sybilla Beckmann
Co-Speaker:
Andrew Izsak


Description of Presentation:

We present a perspective on ratios and proportional relationships we call fixed number of variable parts that has been largely overlooked by research. We then report results from an ongoing study of prospective middle grades teachers’ capacities for reasoning about ratios and proportional relationships from this perspective.

Session Type: Brief Research Report

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