Science as Backdrop for Reflecting on Mathematics with Preservice Teachers [electronic resource] / Rebecca B. Corwin and Susan J. Doubler.
This study identifies some of the questions mathematics educators must address in designing methods courses for graduate students in preservice teacher education programs. The questions emerge from a pilot study of preservice early childhood graduate students' beliefs about the nature of mathem...
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| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | This study identifies some of the questions mathematics educators must address in designing methods courses for graduate students in preservice teacher education programs. The questions emerge from a pilot study of preservice early childhood graduate students' beliefs about the nature of mathematics and science. In a combined mathematics and science methods course, students used each discipline as a backdrop for considering the nature of the other discipline. Three important questions related to mathematics are the following: (a) How can mathematics be better contextualized? (b) How can mathematics be presented as a growing, changing field that, like science, invents new knowledge? (c) How can students learn to ask their own mathematical questions and pursue their own mathematical investigations? (Author/MKR) |
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| Item Description: | ERIC Document Number: ED389595. ERIC Note: Paper presented at the Annual Meeting of the North American Chapter of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education (17th, Columbus, OH, October 21-24, 1995). For entire conference proceedings, see SE 057 177. |
| Physical Description: | 9 p. |