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National Council of Teachers of Mathematics 2014 Research Conference

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

155- Preservice Teachers' Use of Fraction Models: Shifts in Thinking

Wednesday, April 9, 2014: 2:45 PM-3:15 PM
Room 208/209/210 ( Ernest N. Morial Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Wendy Stienstra


Description of Presentation:

As fourteen preservice teachers engaged in a yearlong remedial mathematics skills course they began to use models to think about the relations embedded in fractions. The results of the embedded case study reveal that modeling was a necessary but not sufficient means for the preservice teachers to understand fractions as meaningful objects.

Session Type: Brief Research Report

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