app01 Sat, 24 Oct 2026 21:22:52 +0000 Fireside (https://fireside.fm) Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast - Episodes Tagged with “Teachers; Area Model; Visual Representations” https://mtepodcast.amte.net/tags/teachers;%20area%20model;%20visual%20representations Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:00:00 -0700 The Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast accompanies the Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal and co-sponsored by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics en-us episodic Joel Amidon The Mathematics Teacher Educator Podcast accompanies the Mathematics Teacher Educator Journal and co-sponsored by the Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators and the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics no Mathematics Teacher Educator, Mathematics Education, Teacher Education, Mathematics, Education, Teaching, Teacher Education, Math Joel Amidon joel@amidonplanet.com Episode 43: Developing Preservice Teachers’ Understanding of Area Through a Units Intervention https://mtepodcast.amte.net/43 df86f50c-b86b-4c9e-97d5-bedb213ccdf8 Wed, 19 Oct 2022 19:00:00 -0700 Joel Amidon full 10 Joel Amidon Preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) often enter their teacher preparation programs with procedural and underdeveloped understandings of area measurement and its applications. This is problematic given that area and the area model are used throughout K–Grade 12 to develop flexibility in students’ mathematical understanding and to provide them with a visual interpretation of numerical ideas. This study describes an intervention aimed at bolstering PSTs’ understanding of area and area units with respect to measurement and number and operations. Following the intervention, results indicate that PSTs had both an improved ability to solve area tiling tasks as well as increased flexibility in the strategies they implemented. The results indicate that PSTs, similar to elementary students, develop a conceptual understanding of area from the use of tangible tools and are able to leverage visualizations to make sense of multiplicative structure across different strategies. 37:25 no <p>Preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) often enter their teacher preparation programs with procedural and underdeveloped understandings of area measurement and its applications. This is problematic given that area and the area model are used throughout K–Grade 12 to develop flexibility in students’ mathematical understanding and to provide them with a visual interpretation of numerical ideas. This study describes an intervention aimed at bolstering PSTs’ understanding of area and area units with respect to measurement and number and operations. Following the intervention, results indicate that PSTs had both an improved ability to solve area tiling tasks as well as increased flexibility in the strategies they implemented. The results indicate that PSTs, similar to elementary students, develop a conceptual understanding of area from the use of tangible tools and are able to leverage visualizations to make sense of multiplicative structure across different strategies.</p><p>Special Guest: Megan Wickstrom.</p> Teachers; Area Model; Visual Representations Preservice elementary teachers (PSTs) often enter their teacher preparation programs with procedural and underdeveloped understandings of area measurement and its applications. This is problematic given that area and the area model are used throughout K–Grade 12 to develop flexibility in students’ mathematical understanding and to provide them with a visual interpretation of numerical ideas. This study describes an intervention aimed at bolstering PSTs’ understanding of area and area units with respect to measurement and number and operations. Following the intervention, results indicate that PSTs had both an improved ability to solve area tiling tasks as well as increased flexibility in the strategies they implemented. The results indicate that PSTs, similar to elementary students, develop a conceptual understanding of area from the use of tangible tools and are able to leverage visualizations to make sense of multiplicative structure across different strategies.

Special Guest: Megan Wickstrom.

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Special Guest: Megan Wickstrom.

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