Pre-Service Mathematics Teachers’ Approaches to Students’ Possible Mistakes in Exponential and Square Root Numbers
Abstract
The aim of the study is to investigate pre-service mathematics teachers’ approaches to students’ possible mistakes in exponential and square root numbers. Moreover this study determines their opinions about the forming reasons of these errors and presents pre-service mathematics teachers’ solution suggestions. Conforming to the purpose, the data were collected with documents and interviews; and descriptive and content features of the data were analyzed. According to the results, this study identi ed that pre-service mathematics teachers had dif culty in explaining the errors in the context of mathematical content knowledge (MCK) and according to them most of these errors were teacher based. The offered solution suggestions of pre-service mathematics teachers in preventing error formation were similar to the knowledge of pedagogical content components.
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Primary Language
English
Subjects
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Journal Section
Research Article
Authors
Merve Özkaya
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Türkiye
Alper Cihan Konyalıoğlu
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Türkiye
Solmaz Damla Gedı̇k
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Türkiye
Publication Date
June 30, 2013
Submission Date
September 12, 2012
Acceptance Date
December 17, 2012
Published in Issue
Year 2013 Volume: 3 Number: 2