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Article: Investigating the strategies used by pre-service teachers in Taiwan when responding to number sense questions.(Report)
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- School Science and Mathematics
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- November 1, 2007
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This study examined the strategies used by pre-service teachers when responding to number sense related questions. 15 pre-service teachers from one University in Southern Taiwan were interviewed. Results indicated that about one-third of these pre-service teachers were able to use number sense strategies (such as recognizing the number size, using benchmarks, etc.) and the other two-thirds' relied heavily on written algorithms to solve problems. This is consistent with the findings of the earlier studies (Reys & Yang, 1998: Yang & Reys, 2002; Yang, 2003), which state that fifth, sixth and eighth graders in Taiwan rely heavily on the written method when responding to ...