Examining Preservice Teachers’ Knowledge of Area Formulae
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
1-1-2010
Abstract
The aim of this paper was to examine preservice teachers’ knowledge of area formulae. Clinical interview technique was employed to collect the data. This paper reports the analysis of the responses of eight preservice teachers related to a particular task, Task 8. In Task 8, preservice teachers were asked to show a Form One student the way to develop area formulae of a rectangle, parallelogram, triangle, and trapezium. Findings of the study suggest that all of them lack conceptual knowledge underpinning the formula for the area of a rectangle. The implication of the finding was also discussed.
Keywords
Preservice teachers, Knowledge of area formulae, Case study, Clinical interview
Corp List
Faculty of Education, University of Malaya
Divisions
fac_med
Publication Title
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences
Volume
8