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BATANERO BERNABEU, Carmen; GOMEZ TORRES, Emilse; CONTRERAS GARCIA, José Miguel  y  DIAZ BATANERO, Carmen. Prospective primary school teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching probability: an exploratory study. Práxis Educativa [online]. 2015, vol.10, n.1, pp.11-34. ISSN 1809-4309.  https://doi.org/10.5212/PraxEduc.v.10i1.0001.

This study assesses some elements of common and specialized mathematical knowledge and of knowledge of content and students in relation to elementary probability from a sample of prospective primary school teachers. Common knowledge of content is assessed from the individual solution of 157 prospective teachers to three problems. Once the solution to these problems was discussed with the participants, two additional components of these teachers' mathematical knowledge for teaching were analyzed based on small group work developed by 81 participants: (1) To assess specialized knowledge of content we asked participants to identify the tasks mathematical content; (b) to assess their knowledge of content and students we asked them to identify and justify correct and incorrect answers to the problems given by primary school children. While in the initial assessment we observed a poor probabilistic reasoning, in the second part they were able to identify and explain incorrect answers given by students.

Palabras clave : Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching; Probability; Primary School.

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