Original title: Observing how future primary school teachers reason about fractions
Authors: Samková, L. ; Tichá, Marie
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: 14th International Conference on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education (ERIE), Prague (CZ), 20170608
Year: 2017
Language: eng
Abstract: The contribution focuses on the possibility to use an educational tool called Concept Cartoons in future primary school teachers' education, especially as an instrument for observing how future primary school teachers reason about fractions. The task which we adapted to the Concept Cartoons form belongs to primary school mathematics, i.e. it focuses on the concept of a fraction per se, in particular on the parts-and-whole decision and on comparison of two pre-partitioned models with diverse wholes. Using Concept Cartoons, we observe which statements about the issue our respondents consider as correct, and which kinds of reasoning they use in their justifications. We also mention other related concepts (percentages), and related tasks from entrance exams to lower-secondary selective schools.
Keywords: concept Cartoons; fractions; future primary school teachers
Project no.: GA14-01417S (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education (ERIE), ISBN 978-80-213-2762-7

Institution: Institute of Mathematics AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0275018

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