Investigating Prospective Teachers’ Evaluations of Children’s Temperature Stories

Session Submission Type: Individual Session

Description for Program

We investigated preservice teachers’ ability to evaluate children’s integer temperature problems. We report on the benefits and challenges of using temperature as a context when dealing with integers and also on what the preservice teachers attended to when looking at the children’s stories.

Sub Unit

• Mathematics Content, Processes, and Practices

Lead Presenter

• Dana Olanoff, Widener University

Co-Presenters

• Nicole M. Wessman-Enzinger, George Fox University

• Jennifer M. Tobias, Illinois State University