Wanty Widjaja

Local instruction theory on decimals

The case of Indonesian preservice teachers

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book reports on an empirical study in
developing an instructional sequence on decimals to
promote Indonesian pre-service teachers'' content and
pedagogical content knowledge on decimals. The study
was situated in the context of current reform effort
in adopting Realistic Mathematics Education (RME)
theory and looked into the role and issues of
incorporating RME tenets into the design of
activities for teacher education in Indonesia. The
study was carried out in two cycles of teaching
experiments involving 258 pre-service teachers in
one teacher training in Indonesia using
Design research methodology. Findings from the two
cycles signified the importance of revisiting and
improving pre-service teachers'' content and
pedagogical content knowledge of decimals. Pre-
service teachers'' knowledge on decimals in this
study were characterised as fragmented, with strong
reliance on rules without understanding, and strong
association with fractions. The nature of pre-
service teachers'' knowledge of decimals highlighted
a challenge in attending the guided reinvention
tenet of RME.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 220mm
• ISBN-13: 9783639132304
• ISBN-10: 3639132300
• Artikelnr.: 26390430

Autorenporträt

Wanty Widjaja is a lecturer/researcher at Sanata Dharma
University Indonesia. She completed PhD from The University of
Melbourne Australia in 2008. Her PhD investigated how pre-
service teacher education can implement the theory of realistic
mathematics education. She is interested in mathematics teacher
training and design research.