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Pre-service teachers' perceptions of Mathematics as a language  

Timor, Tsafi (Mathematical Education, lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education)
Patkin, Dorit (Mathematical Education, lecturer at the Kibbutzim College of Education)
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Research in Mathematical Education / v.14, no.3, 2010 , pp. 233-247 More about this Journal
Abstract
The article deals with the perceptions of Mathematics as a language of pre-service teachers of Mathematics in a College of Education in Israel. The formal language of studying in the College of Education is Hebrew. The goals of the study were to examine the perceptions of pre-service teachers on the following issues: the language components involved in learning Mathematics, the basic cognitive skills required for learning Mathematics, and the perception of Mathematics as a language (PML). Findings indicated that due to new attitudes in mathematical training, pre-service teachers of Mathematics perceived Mathematics as a language regarding all language components.
Keywords
basic cognitive skills; language acquisition; language components; language features; the language of Mathematics;
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