How Pre-service Teachers Reflect on their own Mathematics Teaching Practice Compared with the Practice of Others

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-14
Author(s):  
Samukeliso Chikiwa ◽  
Mellony Graven
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice

scholarly journals VALIDATION OF MATHEMATICS TEACHING PRACTICE INSTRUMENTS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL MATHEMATICS TEACHERS: EXPLORATORY FACTOR ANALYSIS (EFA)

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (36) ◽  
pp. 56-69
Author(s):  
Norkumalasari Othman ◽  
Nor Hasnida Che Md Ghazali ◽  
Mohd Nazir Md Zabit
Keyword(s):  
Factor Analysis ◽  
Secondary School ◽  
Mathematics Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
School Mathematics ◽  
Chi Square ◽  
Secondary School Mathematics ◽  
Bartlett Test ◽  
Value Measure

This study aims to review the instruments of mathematics teaching practice among secondary school mathematics teachers. A total of 100 mathematics teachers were involved as respondents in this study. The data were analyzed descriptively by access to Alpha Cronbach's reliability and EFA analysis using SPSS software. The results of the analysis show that the Alpha Cronbach value is 0.934 which is more than 0.60. Results from the exploration factor analysis show four factors with Eigenvalues greater than 1.0. The KMO value (Kaiser-Meyer-Olkin) 0.867 > 0.6 indicates the items in the variable of attitude towards math are sufficient for inter-correlation. While the Bartlett Test was significant (Chi-Square 1521.621, p <0.05), an anti-image value (Measure of Sampling Adequacy, MSA) for items correlation exceeded 0.6. However, there are three items that need to be removed because the values obtained are less than 0.60, which were the items G11, G14, and G18. The value of the total variance explained by these three factors was 62.76 percent. Therefore, the overall findings indicate that the items for mathematics teaching practice instruments can measure and answer the study objectives.

scholarly journals Analyzing student teachers’ use of theory in their reflections on mathematics teaching practice

2019 ◽  
Vol 32 (4) ◽  
pp. 563-588
Author(s):  
Wil Oonk ◽  
Nico Verloop ◽  
Koeno P. E. Gravemeijer
Keyword(s):  
Student Teachers ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Primary Teacher ◽  
First Year ◽  
Theoretical Concepts ◽  
Analysis Instrument ◽  
Theory Use

Abstract This study was conducted among 269 student teachers at 11 primary teacher training colleges in the Netherlands. To investigate their competence in integrating theory and practice in their reflections on mathematics teaching, a learning environment was designed to evoke theory use in reflections on practice. To be able to systematically describe the use of theory, we distinguished two dimensions, which we called the nature and level of theory use. A Reflection Analysis Instrument was used to univocally code the nature and level of the student teachers’ theory use in the reflective notes of their final assessments into 1740 meaningful units. We found that nearly all student teachers used theory. However, they differed markedly in the way they linked theory and practice and with which depth they used theoretical concepts in their reflections. A remarkable finding of the study was the important influence of prior mathematics education on the nature and level of theory use, especially the low results of the third-year student teachers in their level of theory use. The outcome may have consequences for the design of the teacher education curricula and for the intake of first-year student teachers.

Activating Assessment Alternatives in Mathematics

1992 ◽  
Vol 39 (6) ◽  
pp. 24-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
David J. Clarke
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Education ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Mathematics Curriculum ◽  
Teaching Program ◽  
Evaluation Standards ◽  
Pencil And Paper ◽  
And Mathematics ◽  
Assessment Strategies

The Curriculum and Evaluation Standards for School Mathematics (NCTM 1989, 1, 2) emphasizes the role of evaluation “in gathering information on which teachers can base their subsequent instruction.” This strong sense of assessment's informing instructional practice is also evident in the materials arising from the Australian Mathematics Curriculum and Teaching Program (Clarke 1989: Lovitt and Clarke 1988, 1989). Both projects offer their respective mathematics-education communities a set of goal much broader than those traditionally conceived for mathematics instruction. The adoption of these goals by mathematics teachers and school systems demands the use of new assessment strategies if the restructuring of the mathematics curriculum and mathematics-teaching practice is to be effected. Mathematics education must not restrict itself to those goals that can be assessed only through conventional pencil-and-paper methods.

The Analysis on the Way of Integrating the Ideological and Political Education into the Teaching Mode of Higher Mathematics Courses

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 124
Author(s):  
Jianxiang Li
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Positive Function ◽  
Quality Education ◽  
Ideological And Political Education ◽  
Political Education ◽  
Practical Skills ◽  
Teaching Mode ◽  
Mathematics Courses

Under the background of quality education, it not only emphasizes training more professional and technical talents, improving their knowledge and practical skills, but also paying attention to the moral, intellectual, physical, aesthetic and labor aspects to improve the overall quality of college students. Therefore, the integration of ideological and political courses into relevant courses of teaching practice is an issue that is being actively explored and practiced in colleges and universities at present. In terms of the integration of the ideological and political education and higher mathematics courses, it is also of great significance. This paper mainly introduces the positive function of the integration of the ideological and political education into higher mathematics courses and explores the effective countermeasures of the integration of the ideological and political education into higher mathematics teaching.

scholarly journals Epistemological beliefs in relation to the Content, teaching and learning of mathematics teachers

2021 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
Vivian Libeth Uzuriaga López
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching And Learning ◽  
Epistemological Beliefs ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Mathematics Learning ◽  
Specific Domain ◽  
Precise Position ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Mathematics History ◽  
Technology Students

One result of the research is the paper "integral intervention of mathematics' teaching and learning processes" developed in a public university in Colombia, Latin America. The analysis of the epistemological beliefs of a group of academics from the Mathematics Department, who teach subjects to engineer and technology students is presented. We performed descriptive and quantitative cohort research. The objective was to identify the beliefs regarding mathematics' content, learning, and teaching. The 56 participants were included from a voluntary sample, in which the majority were engineers. A questionnaire adapted from Vizcaíno, with a specific domain of mathematical beliefs, approached from the multidimensional model de Schommer was used as a measuring instrument. The results showed that, in general, the teachers' system beliefs are naive or simple and in some specific topics sophisticated. It was observed a percentage of teachers who didn't assume a precise position in their beliefs when responding neutrally to the questionnaire, which could be interpreted as a lack of reflection on their teaching practice, which revealed the need to generate discussion spaces for promoting reflective practices that improve the mathematics' learning. Likewise, the need for training in mathematics' history, epistemological knowledge, and didactics was evidenced, which promotes better mathematics teaching practices.

Understanding and measuring mathematics teaching practice

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Darleen Opfer ◽  
Courtney Bell ◽  
Eckhard Klieme ◽  
Daniel McCaffrey ◽  
Jonathan Schweig ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice

Online education, notes on the experience in the Mathematics Degree Course at the Federal University of Campina Grande

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosinângela Cavalcanti da Silva Benedito ◽  
Simone Lucena
Keyword(s):  
Online Education ◽  
Research Group ◽  
Mathematics Teaching ◽  
Teaching Practice ◽  
Physical Distance ◽  
Use Of Resources ◽  
Digital Network ◽  
Long Time ◽  
Information And Communication ◽  
Digital Cultures

We live in a time of cyberculture, in the constant presence of digital network, social networks, the constant use of applications and devices of Information and Communication Technology and it is important that education is engaged in this reality. The experience in graduate education has presented researchers with different perspectives and who have been studying online education and its devices and interfaces for a long time. Online education has become, since 2020, a reality at all levels of education, and teachers at universities have also had to adapt their practice so that teaching takes place, respecting the rules of physical distance, due to the situation of pandemic that we experience. Thus, this article aims to present and analyze the results of the use of resources and interfaces in the development of the Mathematics Teaching Practice course in the Elementary School of the Mathematics Degree Course at the Teacher Training Center of the Federal University of Campina Grande (UFCG), Cajazeiras campus, in Paraíba. And in this way, reflect on the influence of learning developed in the Doctorate in Education by the Federal University of Sergipe (UFS) and in the Research Group on Education and Digital Cultures (ECult) in teaching practice. For the development of this work, questionnaires made to students at the beginning and at the end of the academic period were used as an evaluation, identification of the studies carried out in the preparation and of the interfaces used, as well as reports of the activities and presentation of the results of the discipline. When analyzing the use of technologies in the teaching of Mathematics Teaching Practice, what is observed is that it was necessary to adapt the actions provided for in the curriculum component's menu, but it was possible to introduce interfaces never used before in the course and develop activities in an innovative way. and with learning that will remain in the next periods, even in person and that this practice was directly influenced by the guidance and experiences in the doctorate and in the Research Group.

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