References for Mathematics Teachers: Teacher Education in Mathematics

1952 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 590-593
Author(s):  
William L. Schaaf

In the 1923 Report on the Reorganization of Mathematics in Secondary Education, it was pointed out that in some states the preparation of high school mathematics teachers was of such a low quality that the Committee judiciously refrained from giving the detailed data on those states. We have come a long way since then. Today, in general, secondary mathematics teachers are professionally and academically as well educated as teachers in any other field.

1997 ◽  
Vol 90 (3) ◽  
pp. 254-255
Author(s):  
Sharon Stenglein

ln this National Science Foundation (NFS) Teacher Enhancement Project, fifty Minnesota middle school and high school mathematics teachers are collaborating with three Saint Olaf CoUege mathematics professors to integrate inquiry-based geometry and visualization across their secondary mathematics curricula.


Author(s):  
Isaac Bengre Taley ◽  
Matilda Sarpong Adusei

Helping junior high school students to use calculators and computers for problem solving and investigating real-life situations is an objective of the junior high school mathematics curriculum in Ghana. Ironically, there is a technological drought in junior high school mathematics instruction in Ghana, with a suspicion that mathematics teachers’ competency in the use of calculators for teaching may be the source of this lack of use. This study sought to establish a correlation between junior high school mathematics teachers’ competence and the motivation supporting the use of calculators in teaching.  A descriptive survey comprising of a test and questionnaire was used to collect data from junior high school mathematics teachers in an educational district in Ghana. Teacher characteristics such as educational attainment, age, and gender in relation to teachers’ competency in the use of calculators were discussed in the study. The results showed that about 70% of the teachers exhibited a low level of calculator competence. Besides, novice teachers outperformed expert teachers in the calculator competency-based test. Additionally, mathematics teachers’ enthusiasm for using calculators in teaching was directly associated with the teachers’ level of competency. The findings may send a signal to stakeholders in their efforts to revising the Ghana JHS curriculum in order to actualize the curriculum desire for the integration of technology in the teaching and learning of JHS mathematics.


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