PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
To factorize or not to factorize: Novice teachers’ struggles
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Focusing on the unique factorization domain (UFD) in college mathematics and polynomial factorization in school mathematics, this study examined how teachers’ factorization concepts occur in the teaching context. We conducted semi-structured interviews with eight novice teachers. The result of this study can serve as a resource for teacher educators when teaching UFD in abstract algebra in the future.