PRESERVICE MIDDLE SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS’ KNOWLEDGE ABOUT STUDENTS’ MATHEMATICAL THINKING RELATED TO PERIMETER AND AREA
| Autor: | GUNER, Pınar, AKYUZ, Didem |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Volume: 6, Issue: 61-67 The Eurasia Proceedings of Educational and Social Sciences |
| ISSN: | 2587-1730 |
| Popis: | Thepurpose of the current study is to examine preservice middle school mathematicsteachers’ knowledge about students’ mathematical thinking related to perimeterand area and determine the consistency between this knowledge and students’actual mathematical thinking. Case study, one of the qualitative research designs,was used to gain an in-depth understanding of the situation. The study wasconducted with four senior preservice middle school mathematics teachers whoenrolled in the program of elementary mathematics education at a publicuniversity. The data obtained through video recordings from the process ofplanning, teaching and reflecting on two lessons towards perimeter and area.The videos from teaching were used to identify students’ mathematical thinking,difficulties, mistakes and misconceptions whereas the videos from planning andreflecting were used to describe preservice teachers’ knowledge of students’mathematical thinking. The data were analyzed through content analysis method.The findings showed that students had lack of knowledge about the meanings ofthe concepts of perimeter and area, made mistakes related to calculation anduse of measurement units. In addition to this, preservice teachers’ predictionsand expectations about students’ mathematical thinking were very limited.Finally, it was observed that there were important differences betweenstudents’ thinking ways, difficulties, misconceptions and possible mistakes andpreservice teachers’ expectations and predictions about these issues. |
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