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This essay will critique the article, “Pre-Service Elementary School Teachers Becoming Mathematics Teachers: Their Participation in an Online Professional Community”, by Annie Savard, Terry Wan Jung Lin, and Natasha Lamb. This specific article is of great importance to me because I intend to become a mathematics teacher in the near future. I want to know everything I can in order to have a greater chance at accomplishing my goal to be the best math teacher I can be. This article helped with a basic understanding of what I need, but interviewing a professional I have discovered that this article is only describes a rudimentary background in what I need to be a successful math teacher. The article I read was a case study following pre-service
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