ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS
In our contribution we focus on the possibility to use an educational tool called Concept Cartoons in future primary school teachers’ education, as an instrument for observing how future primary school teachers reason about fractions. In the introduction section we present Concept Cartoons, and also...
| Main Authors: | , |
|---|---|
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
| Published: |
Czech University of Life Sciences Prague
2017-12-01
|
| Series: | Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science |
| Subjects: | |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2017.100401 |
| _version_ | 1828808696698765312 |
|---|---|
| author | Libuše Samková Marie Tichá |
| author_facet | Libuše Samková Marie Tichá |
| author_sort | Libuše Samková |
| collection | DOAJ |
| description | In our contribution we focus on the possibility to use an educational tool called Concept Cartoons in future primary school teachers’ education, as an instrument for observing how future primary school teachers reason about fractions. In the introduction section we present Concept Cartoons, and also the primary school level of the fractions topic. In the first part of the research we analyse data obtained when future primary school teachers were solving a problem in the Concept Cartoon form. The task which we adapted to this form belongs to primary school mathematics, it focuses on the concept of a fraction per se (on the parts-and-whole decision and on comparison of two pre-partitioned models with diverse wholes). Using Concept Cartoons, we can observe which statements about the issue our respondents consider as correct, and which kinds of reasoning they use in their justifications. In the second part of the research we analyse problems that the respondents themselves posed in the Concept Cartoon form, with particular focus on tasks devoted to fractions. |
| first_indexed | 2024-12-12T08:44:39Z |
| format | Article |
| id | doaj.art-eb16d2ea4243472cb3f50bb0da14eb51 |
| institution | Directory Open Access Journal |
| issn | 2336-2375 1803-1617 |
| language | English |
| last_indexed | 2024-12-12T08:44:39Z |
| publishDate | 2017-12-01 |
| publisher | Czech University of Life Sciences Prague |
| record_format | Article |
| series | Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science |
| spelling | doaj.art-eb16d2ea4243472cb3f50bb0da14eb512022-12-22T00:30:37ZengCzech University of Life Sciences PragueJournal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science2336-23751803-16172017-12-011049310010.7160/eriesj.2017.100401ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONSLibuše Samková0Marie Tichá1Faculty of Education, University of South BohemiaDepartment of Didactics of Mathematics, Institute of Mathematics of the Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech RepublicIn our contribution we focus on the possibility to use an educational tool called Concept Cartoons in future primary school teachers’ education, as an instrument for observing how future primary school teachers reason about fractions. In the introduction section we present Concept Cartoons, and also the primary school level of the fractions topic. In the first part of the research we analyse data obtained when future primary school teachers were solving a problem in the Concept Cartoon form. The task which we adapted to this form belongs to primary school mathematics, it focuses on the concept of a fraction per se (on the parts-and-whole decision and on comparison of two pre-partitioned models with diverse wholes). Using Concept Cartoons, we can observe which statements about the issue our respondents consider as correct, and which kinds of reasoning they use in their justifications. In the second part of the research we analyse problems that the respondents themselves posed in the Concept Cartoon form, with particular focus on tasks devoted to fractions.https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2017.100401Concept CartoonsFractionsFuture primary school teachersProblem solvingProblem posingReasoning |
| spellingShingle | Libuše Samková Marie Tichá ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS Journal on Efficiency and Responsibility in Education and Science Concept Cartoons Fractions Future primary school teachers Problem solving Problem posing Reasoning |
| title | ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS |
| title_full | ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS |
| title_fullStr | ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS |
| title_full_unstemmed | ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS |
| title_short | ON THE WAY TO OBSERVE HOW FUTURE PRIMARY SCHOOL TEACHERS REASON ABOUT FRACTIONS |
| title_sort | on the way to observe how future primary school teachers reason about fractions |
| topic | Concept Cartoons Fractions Future primary school teachers Problem solving Problem posing Reasoning |
| url | https://doi.org/10.7160/eriesj.2017.100401 |
| work_keys_str_mv | AT libusesamkova onthewaytoobservehowfutureprimaryschoolteachersreasonaboutfractions AT marieticha onthewaytoobservehowfutureprimaryschoolteachersreasonaboutfractions |