Prospective teachers' conceptions about a plane angle and the context dependency of the conceptions




Silfverberg Harry, Joutsenlahti Jorma

Nicol Cynthia, Oesterle Susan, Liljedahl Peter, Allan Darien

Meeting of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

Vancouver

2014

 Proceedings of the PME Conference

Proceedings of the 38th Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education and the 36th Conference of the North American Chapter of the Psychology of Mathematics Education

5

185

192

978-0-86491-365-4

0771-100X

http://www.pmena.org/proceedings/PMENA 36 PME 38 2014 Proceedings Vol 5.pdf



In our study, we looked for an answer to the research question “How prospective teachers comprehend the concept of a plane angle and what kind of variation there is between the conceptions? The study shows that the prospective teachers interpret the concept “plane angle” which in principle is familiar to everybody in many different ways. In this paper, we categorise eight interpretations of a different type, appearing in the future teachers' ideas. We also show some examples of the fact that individuals can use different concept images of a plane angle when performing the tasks of different types even in the same test.



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