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Fostering Growth in Teacher Content Knowledge Through the Construction of Sketches for Students

Michael Todd Edwards — Miami University

Abstract

In this paper, the author investigates connections between teacher content knowledge and the construction of sketches through an examination of teacher-constructed applets. Specifically, the author analyzes the mathematics that teachers needed to know to design sketches in GeoGebra to support student understanding of a proportional reasoning problem aligned to 6th grade Common Core math standards.

Keywords: pedagogical content knowledge, teacher knowledge, problem solving, proportional thinking, modeling


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