Author(s): Rodrigues, Margarida ; Brunheira, Lina ; Serrazina, Maria De Lurdes
Date: 2021
Persistent ID: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.21/15112
Origin: Repositório Científico do Instituto Politécnico de Lisboa
Subject(s): Primary teachers; Generalising process
To succeed in mathematics, students must be able to reason mathematically in a fluent way. To help students to develop this ability, teachers need to develop their own mathematical reasoning, as well as their knowledge about reasoning. The generalizing process is a central mathematical reasoning process and it consists of inferring statements about a set of objects from the analysis of a subset of these objects (Jeannotte & Kieran, 2017). Although there are many studies that address the ability to generalize in prospective teachers, there is a lack of evidence about their knowledge of this reasoning process. In this communication, we aim to discuss both the ability and the knowledge of generalizing process among prospective primary teachers.
