PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVING
The activity of reasoning-and-proving is at the heart of mathematical sense making and is important for all students' learning as early as the elementary grades. Yet, reasoning-and-proving tends to have a marginal place in elementary school classrooms. This situation can be partly attributed to...
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| author | Stylianides, G Stylianides, A Shilling-Traina, L |
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| description | The activity of reasoning-and-proving is at the heart of mathematical sense making and is important for all students' learning as early as the elementary grades. Yet, reasoning-and-proving tends to have a marginal place in elementary school classrooms. This situation can be partly attributed to the fact that many (prospective) elementary teachers have (1) weak mathematical (subject matter) knowledge about reasoning-and-proving and (2) counterproductive beliefs about its teaching. Following up on an intervention study that helped a group of prospective elementary teachers make significant progress in overcoming these two major obstacles to teaching reasoning-and-proving, we examined the challenges that three of them identified that they faced as they planned and taught lessons related to reasoning-and-proving in their mentor teachers' classrooms. Our findings contribute to research knowledge about major factors (other than the well-known factors related to teachers' mathematical knowledge and beliefs) that deserve attention by teacher education programs in preparing prospective teachers to teach reasoning-and-proving. © 2013 National Science Council, Taiwan. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:5f5dc705-572d-4bbd-9c45-f9d60d4963552022-03-26T17:46:31ZPROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVINGJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:5f5dc705-572d-4bbd-9c45-f9d60d496355Symplectic Elements at Oxford2013Stylianides, GStylianides, AShilling-Traina, LThe activity of reasoning-and-proving is at the heart of mathematical sense making and is important for all students' learning as early as the elementary grades. Yet, reasoning-and-proving tends to have a marginal place in elementary school classrooms. This situation can be partly attributed to the fact that many (prospective) elementary teachers have (1) weak mathematical (subject matter) knowledge about reasoning-and-proving and (2) counterproductive beliefs about its teaching. Following up on an intervention study that helped a group of prospective elementary teachers make significant progress in overcoming these two major obstacles to teaching reasoning-and-proving, we examined the challenges that three of them identified that they faced as they planned and taught lessons related to reasoning-and-proving in their mentor teachers' classrooms. Our findings contribute to research knowledge about major factors (other than the well-known factors related to teachers' mathematical knowledge and beliefs) that deserve attention by teacher education programs in preparing prospective teachers to teach reasoning-and-proving. © 2013 National Science Council, Taiwan. |
| spellingShingle | Stylianides, G Stylianides, A Shilling-Traina, L PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVING |
| title | PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVING |
| title_full | PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVING |
| title_fullStr | PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVING |
| title_full_unstemmed | PROSPECTIVE TEACHERS' CHALLENGES IN TEACHING REASONING-AND-PROVING |
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