Matematikklærerstudenters matematiske ‘meaning’ om endringsrate : En norsk pilotstudie om bruken av et instrument utviklet i USA designet for å utfor…

2017

Masteroppgave matematikkdidaktikk MA502 – Universitetet i Agder 2017 The theme for this masters dissertation is mathematics teacher education students’ mathematical meaning of rate of change. It is a pilot study that uses the research instrument Mathematical Meanings for Teaching secondary mathematics (MMTsm) in Norway. The instrument is developed in the USA by Professor Pat Thompson at Arizona State University. It is a diagnostic instrument designed to investigate teachers’ mathematical meanings and it is developed from a constructivist perspective. In the work for this dissertation I have focused on the subject ‘rate of change’, that is the subject of several of the tasks included in the …