Tuesday, April 12, 2016: 8:30 AM-9:00 AM
3007 (San Francisco Convention Center)
Lead Speaker:
Matt B. Roscoe
Description of Presentation:
This brief report presents a study investigating the impact of a sequence of instructional tasks on prospective elementary teachers’ (PSTs’) knowledge of divisibility. Analysis of written assessments revealed significant improvements in PSTs’ use of prime factorization to identify a variety of factor types, signaling a diminished dependence on more traditional and error-prone methods.
Session Type: Brief Research Report