Preservice Mathematics Teachers' Solutions to Problems: Conversions within the Metric System

This paper reports on the results of a preliminary investigation to determine if preservice mathematics teachers solve conversion problems within the metric system in multiple ways. Here, four metric conversion problems of escalating difficulty were administered within a mathematics methods course a...

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Main Author: Jean E. Hallagan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: International Institute of Informatics and Cybernetics 2013-10-01
Series:Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics
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Online Access:http://www.iiisci.org/Journal/CV$/sci/pdfs/iHA597GI.pdf