Article

Mathematics teachers’ knowledge base: Preliminary results

Authors

Guershon Harel, University of California - San DiegoFollow
Kien Lim, University of Texas at El PasoFollow

Publication Date

July 2004

Journal/Book Title/Conference

Proceedings of the Twenty-eighth Conference of the International Group for the Psychology of Mathematics Education

Abstract

Student learning depends on the teacher’s actions, which are, in turn, dependent on the teacher’s knowledge base—defined here by three components: knowledge of mathematics content, knowledge of student epistemology, and knowledge of pedagogy. The purpose of this study is to construct models for teachers’ knowledge base and for their development in an on-site professional development project.