Prospective Mathematics Teachers Understanding of Classical and Frequentist Probability

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Secondary Teachers’ Understanding of Probability and Sampling In Context

Dissertation Abstract The need for more effective teaching of probability is well established in the literature. representativeness heuristic) are frequently applied inappropriately when interpreting probabilistic situations. This qualitative study, organized as two multi-tiered teaching experiments, examines secondary mathematics teachers' knowledge of probability and sampling, their classroom...

Cognition and Affect in Mathematics Problem Solving with Prospective Teachers

Recent studies relating the affective domain with the teaching and learning of mathematics, and more specifically with mathematics problem solving, have focused on teacher education. The authors of these studies have been ever more insistently pointing to the need to design educational programs that take an integrated cognitive and affective approach to mathematics education. Given this context...

Task Modification and Knowledge Utilization by Korean Prospective Mathematics Teachers

It has been asserted that mathematical tasks play a critical role in the teaching and learning of mathematics. Modification of tasks included in intended curriculum materials, such as textbooks, can be an effective activity for prospective teachers to understand the role of mathematical tasks in the teaching and learning of mathematics; designing of new tasks requires more knowledge and experie...

Prospective Mathematics Teachers' Technology-Based Presentations on Proportional Reasoning

This study investigated future teachers’ use of technology in teaching proportional reasoning lessons in a senior-level college seminar. Seminar participants were preparing to teach mathematics at an elementary, middle, or secondary school, and the technology-based lesson was a capstone experience wherein they were to demonstrate proportional reasoning concepts or principles that were appropria...