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Web-Based Video Clips: A Supplemental Resource for Supporting Pre-service Elementary Mathematics Teachers

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Teacher understanding and confidence with rational numbers are important factors contributing to student success with this foundational concept. The challenge facing many Ontario elementary mathematics teacher educators is finding the time, within a 1-year teacher education program, to provide opportunities for elementary pre-service teachers to re-learn rational number concepts in ways they are required to teach. In an effort to address this challenge, web-based video clips were created as an accessible learning resource to support the needs of pre-service elementary teachers. This chapter describes how and why the videos were incorporated into the program and describes the reflections of elementary pre-service teachers after viewing selected videos. The reflections reveal the influence of web-based videos on pre-service teachers’ perceived understanding of and confidence with rational numbers.

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  3. Faculty of Education, Dept. of Mathematics Education, Bayburt University, Dede Korkut St., Bayburt, 69000, Turkey

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LeSage, A. (2013). Web-Based Video Clips: A Supplemental Resource for Supporting Pre-service Elementary Mathematics Teachers. In: Martinovic, D., Freiman, V., Karadag, Z. (eds) Visual Mathematics and Cyberlearning. Mathematics Education in the Digital Era, vol 1. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-2321-4_8

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