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How well can pre-service elementary teachers answer word problems? Furthermore, can they represent the same answer in multiple ways? To answer these questions, I conducted a study with four pre-service elementary teachers answering word problems that incorporate proportional reasoning to investigate the strengths and opportunities for growth. I found three pre-service elementary teachers generated different representations of the correct solution: writing proportions to solve by cross-multiplication, drawing pictures to solve by repeated addition, and creating tables to solve by percents. One pre-service elementary teacher did struggle to produce effective strategies to solve some of the presented word problems.
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Fox, R.D. (2018). Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Generation of Multiple Representations to Word Problems Involving Proportions. In: Stylianides, G., Hino, K. (eds) Research Advances in the Mathematical Education of Pre-service Elementary Teachers. ICME-13 Monographs. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-68342-3_4
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