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Supporting Teacher Learning: Our Voyage with Knowing and Teaching Elementary Mathematics

Hortensia Soto‐Johnson, Michele Iiams, April Hoffmeister, Barbara Boschmans, Todd Oberg

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When teaching mathematics content courses designed for preservice elementary teachers, we often meet resistance when we ask our students to learn mathematics conceptually; they consider us out of touch with what works in the classroom. Preservice elementary teachers question the need for conceptual understanding, feeling certain that elementary students cannot and will not understand mathematics in this way.

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Key concepts: Mathematics education, Elementary mathematics, Feeling, Primary education, Teaching method, Connected Mathematics, Pedagogy, Psychology