Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education
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Journal

Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education


Volume
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Volume 13, Issue 3


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Pages

617-632


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Article

The numeric-vectorial component for analysing the infinite limit of a sequence in preservice teachers


Authors

M. Arnal-Palacián* Affiliation:
University of Zaragoza, Mathematics Department
, J. Claros-Mellado Affiliation:
IES Calderón de la Barca de Pinto
and M.t. Sánchez-Compañá Affiliation:
University of Malaga, Didactics of Mathematics Department


Abstract

This article studies how preservice teachers consider the concept of the infinite limit of a sequence in relation to their future teaching practice through the numeric-vectorial component. During the research, 27 prospective secondary education and Baccalaureate (secondary school)-level teachers were organised into groups and were asked to debate different fragments setting out the above-mentioned limit that had been extracted from textbooks from different publishers. In the analysis, phenomenology was considered in the sense defined by Freudenthal, from two possible approaches —intuitive and formal, and by applying four systems of representation: verbal, tabular, graphic, and symbolic; in addition, Elementary and Advanced Mathematical Thinking levels were considered in order to classify the phenomena chosen. Based on this analysis, we were able to determine five individual and three group level phenomenological profiles. We have used these data to offer some insights into teaching and learning of the infinite limit of a sequence from the perspective of prospective teachers.


Keywords

Infinite limit of a sequence, Phenomenology, Teaching profile, Mathematics teacher training, Numeric-vectorial component


Citation

Arnal-Palacián, M., Claros-Mellado, J., & Sánchez-Compañá, M. (2022). The numeric-vectorial component for analysing the infinite limit of a sequence in preservice teachers. Turkish Journal of Computer and Mathematics Education, 13(3), 617–632.

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