Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Solutions to Problems: Conversions within the Metric System
This paper reports on the results of a preliminary investigation to determine if preservice mathematics teachers solve conversion problems within the metric system in multiple ways. Here, four metric conversion problems of escalating difficulty were administered within a mathematics methods course a...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics
2013-10-01
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| Series: | Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics |
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| Online Access: | http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/iHA597GI.pdf
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| Summary: | This paper reports on the results of a preliminary investigation to determine if preservice mathematics teachers solve conversion problems within the metric system in multiple ways. Here, four metric conversion problems of escalating difficulty were administered within a mathematics methods course at a comprehensive state university in the Northeastern United States. Results show that preservice teachers solved the problems in the same way that they were taught in high school, and that in high school they were only taught one way. |
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| ISSN: | 1690-4524 |