Title: PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS' CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF INTEGERS.
Authors: Reeder, Stacy; Bateiha, Summer
Abstract: This investigation examined the degree to which prospective elementary teachers had developed a meaningful and conceptual understanding of what integers are and explored their development of models for multiplication with integers that are related to everyday activities. Additionally, this study explored how these understandings informed prospective elementary teachers envisioning of their teaching of integers concepts and integers with operations to their future students.
Subjects: ELEMENTARY school teachers; INTEGERS; MULTIPLICATION; CONCEPT learning; MATHEMATICAL models; EDUCATION; PSYCHOLOGY
Publication: Investigations in Mathematics Learning, 2016, Vol 8, Issue 3, p16
ISSN: 1947-7503
Publication type: Academic Journal
DOI: 10.1080/24727466.2016.11790352

PROSPECTIVE ELEMENTARY TEACHERS' CONCEPTUAL UNDERSTANDING OF INTEGERS.

Reeder, Stacy; Bateiha, Summer