Mitigating Misconceptions of Preservice Teachers: The Relationship between Area and Perimeter

Sister Cecilia Anne Wanner

doi:10.18061/ojsm.4089

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Mitigating Misconceptions of Preservice Teachers: The Relationship between Area and Perimeter

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Preservice teachers often demonstrate misconceptions regarding the non-constant relationship between area and perimeter. The author presents a sequence of hands-on instructional tasks with pentominoes to promote deep conceptual understanding of this relationship.

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Wanner, S., (2019) “Mitigating Misconceptions of Preservice Teachers: The Relationship between Area and Perimeter”, Ohio Journal of School Mathematics 82(1), 36--44. doi: https://doi.org/10.18061/ojsm.4089

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Published on 2019-09-03
Pages: 36--44
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