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Measuring teacher awareness of children's understanding of equivalence

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posted on 2016-02-12, 09:44 authored by Jodie Hunter, Ian JonesIan Jones
Children’s understanding of the equals sign has been widely studied and identified as an important issue for thinking flexibly about arithmetic and learning algebra. Experiences in primary mathematics lessons impact significantly on understanding, but relatively few studies have investigated primary teachers’ awareness of children’s understanding. One reason may be that while carefully validated instruments exist for measuring children’s understanding, no such instrument is available for evaluating teacher awareness. We analyse the performance of a questionnaire administered to 197 primary teachers in New Zealand and the UK, and identify how individual items are likely to elicit different teacher responses.

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The 39th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

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HUNTER, J. and JONES, I., 2016. Measuring teacher awareness of children's understanding of equivalence. Presented at the 39th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education, Hobart, Tasmania, 13-18th July.

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2016

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Tasmania

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