Transforming Preservice Teachers' Proportional Reasoning

• In Event: Mathematical Content Knowledge Brief Report Session: Fractions and Rational Numbers

Description for Program

This brief report will highlight specific tasks and targeted questioning used to elicit proportional reasoning in PSTs. Based on transformative learning theory, these disorienting dilemmas allowed PSTs to engage in discourse to overcome their challenges with understanding ratio and proportion.

Author

• Kim Helene Johnson, West Chester University