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Promoting Writing in Mathematics: Prospective Teachers’ Experiences and Perspectives on the Process of Writing When Doing Mathematics as Problem Solving

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dc.creator Ana Kuzle
dc.date 2013-12-01T00:00:00Z
dc.date.accessioned 2015-07-20T22:10:31Z
dc.date.available 2015-07-20T22:10:31Z
dc.identifier 1855-9719
dc.identifier 2232-2647
dc.identifier https://doaj.org/article/e4cdda7779104091b7585cd28922427d
dc.identifier.uri http://evidence.thinkportal.org/handle/123456789/13685
dc.description Despite a great deal of research on the benefits of writing in mathematics, writing plays a minimal role, if any, in secondary and tertiary mathematics education. In order for teachers to use writing in their classrooms, they themselves have to experience writing mathematics within the teacher education programme. The present paper reports on a study aimed at addressing this gap. In a problem-solving seminar, preservice teachers had an opportunity to experience writing in mathematics and report how this affected their problem-solving processes and shaped their attitudes towards incorporating writing in their classrooms. In order to provide a more detailed description of the phenomenon, four participants were chosen based on their beliefs about mathematics. All of the participants struggled with writing their explanations. Those who used writing as a method to support metacognitive processes while exploring mathematics tended to respond positively to the writing process. The others used writing merely as a method to produce a formal document to be evaluated by the instructor. Consequently, those who viewed writing and doing mathematics as an intertwined process expressed a positive attitude towards using writing in their mathematics classroom. This was, unfortunately, not the case when writing and doing mathematics were seen as two separate processes. Implications for teacher education programmes are presented at the end of the report.
dc.language English
dc.language Slovene
dc.relation http://www.cepsj.si/pdfs/cepsj_3_4/CEPSj_3_4_Kuzle_pp%2041-59.pdf
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/1855-9719
dc.relation https://doaj.org/toc/2232-2647
dc.rights CC BY
dc.source CEPS Journal : Center for Educational Policy Studies Journal, Vol 3, Iss 4, Pp 41-59 (2013)
dc.subject Attitudes
dc.subject Beliefs
dc.subject Metacognition
dc.subject Problem solving
dc.subject Prospective mathematics teachers
dc.subject Writing in mathematics
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject DOAJ:Education
dc.subject DOAJ:Social Sciences
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.subject Education (General)
dc.subject L7-991
dc.subject Education
dc.subject L
dc.title Promoting Writing in Mathematics: Prospective Teachers’ Experiences and Perspectives on the Process of Writing When Doing Mathematics as Problem Solving
dc.type article


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