Prospective Elementary Mathematics Teachers' Skills to Solve Problems Involving Multi-Solution

Agricultural Education Teachers’ Ability to Solve Agriculturally Related Mathematics Problems

The National Commission on Secondary Vocational Education (1984) made two important recommendations for curriculum. First, vocational courses should provide instruction and practice in the basic skills including mathematics. Second, students should be allowed to satisfy graduation requirements for basic skills courses including mathematics with selected vocational education courses. Agricultura...

Prototyping Augmented Reality With Elementary Mathematics Teachers

In recent years, augmented reality (AR) applications for children’s entertainment have been gaining popularity, and educational organizations are increasingly interested in applying this technology to children’s educational games. In this paper we describe an effective process of collaboration between teachers and game designers, in order to explore educational game ideas for AR technology. Thi...

Mathematicians and Mathematics Textbooks for Prospective Elementary Teachers, Volume 53, Number 1

Gender Differences of Elementary Prospective Teachers in Mathematical Beliefs and Mathematics Teaching Anxiety

In this study, any possible differences between mathematics beliefs and anxiety of prospective elementary mathematics teachers have been investigated according to their gender. In this purpose, 1, 2, 3 and 4 grade students from a Government University in Turkey were selected as a sample. Mathematics Teaching Anxiety Scale (MATAS) and Beliefs About Mathematics Survey (BAMS) has been used as data...

Adapting math instruction to support prospective elementary teachers

Purpose – Elementary teachers‘ understanding of mathematics is a significant contributor to student success with mathematics. Consequently, teacher educators are frequently charged with the responsibility of supporting the development of prospective elementary teachers‘ mathematics content knowledge as they re-learn concepts in ways they are required to teach. The purpose of this paper is to de...