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ERG SES D 06, Education and Pre-Service Teachers
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In recent decades, there has been a widespread change in mathematics curriculums in all over the world. These curriculum changes are broadly in agreement on the idea that mathematics should be taught as a web of interrelated concepts and procedures, not isolated rules and facts. Basing on this premise, curriculum standards about problem solving shifted toward a process oriented view from one-correct answer view, with asserting the use of multiple strategies to solve problems. In this regard, NCTM’s curriculum standards emphasize that students should be able to apply and adapt variety of appropriate strategies (NCTM, 1991). The mathematics curriculum in Turkey also proposes the importance of using multiple strategies in mathematics classrooms (MEB, 2013). Therefore, teachers are expected to understand, appreciate and use variety of problem solving strategies and facilitate students to understand different strategies and the interconnections between them, and apply these strategies while problem solving. Previous researches focusing preservice teachers use of multiple strategies (Silver, Ghoussseini, Gosen, Charalambous, Font Strawhun, 2005; Bingölbali, 2011; Lynch and Star, 2013) indicated that preservice teachers’ openness to different solutions in their future mathematics classroom has not been fully explored (Silver, Ghoussseini, Gosen, Charalambous, Font Strawhun, 2005; Bingölbali, 2011; Lynch and Star, 2013). We know little about whether preservice teachers are ready to use these strategies in their future classrooms when they had an opportunity to make their instructional decisions. In this study, we aimed to investigate the elementary pre-service teachers’ views about multiple solution strategies. The research question addressed was “What are the elementary pre-service teachers views on multiple solution strategies of a multiplication problem?” For this reason, pre-service teachers were asked to state their views about different solution strategies for a multiplication problem considering the reasonability of each strategy and their preference of particular strategy or strategies with indicating reasons of their preferences.
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