„Find, where he has lost the track!” – Possibilities in the course of teaching primary school teacher students using the results of a pilot research

Abstract

I have learnt from Eszter C. Neményi a lot, but perhaps the most important thing I have learnt from her is the approach to university students. I have experienced several times that she tried to find the areas with great care where for the student was still everything clear during his/her mathematical studies. I heard from her once the sentence quoted in the title: „Find, where he has lost the track!” This motivated me to clarify according to the tests written in autumn 2016 by first grade students, who and where has lost that track.