Mathematical Tasks That Promote Prospective Elementary Teachers’ Attention to and Use of Multiplicative Structure

Session Submission Type: Individual Session

Description for Program

This session will present results of a study examining the impact of a sequence of instructional tasks aimed at strengthening prospective elementary teachers’ attention to and use of multiplicative structure, as provided by prime decomposition, to solve problems involving divisibility.

Sub Unit

• Mathematics Content, Processes, and Practices

Lead Presenter

• Ziv Feldman, Boston University

Co-Presenter

• Matt Brady Roscoe, University of Montana