PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
Examining prospective teachers’ justifications of children’s temperature stories
Page: 1653
Part of the work of mathematics teacher educators (MTEs) are to provide authentic experiences to prospective teachers. We showed four temperature story problems involving integers to prospective teachers (PTs), and asked them if the stories matched given number sentences. While each of the stories were similar to the number sentence, none of them matched exactly. We examine the reasons PTs gave for saying that the stories matched the number sentences, and discuss implications of their thinking for mathematics content courses for prospective teachers.