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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"beliefs about mathematics"”.
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Teacher Beliefs about Mathematics Teaching and Learning and Classroom Achievement Growth
… offers a comprehensive exploration of teacher beliefs among K-8 educators, specifically focusing on perspectives related to mathematics instruction. The findings reveal a diverse array of beliefs, shedding light on nuanced aspects of transmissionist, facts-first, and fixed instructional plan …
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Early Childhood (K-5) Preservice Teachers' Beliefs about Mathematics, Teaching Mathematics, and Learning Mathematics
<p>Mathematics teacher educators have agreed that teachers' beliefs about mathematics are contributing factors in their instructional practices, that preservice teachers' views of teaching and learning mathematics are influenced by their beliefs about mathematics, and that the process of becoming a …
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Relationships Among Prospective Elementary Teachers' Beliefs About Mathematics, Mathematics Content Knowledge, and Previous Mathematics Course Experiences
… among the constructs content knowledge, beliefs, and previous experiences of prospective elementary teachers. The 36 participants in the study, 35 females and one male, were recent graduates from a five-year Elementary Education licensure program at a major university located in the …
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Influences of metacognition-based teaching and teaching via problem solving on students’ beliefs about mathematics and mathematical problem solving
… of metacognition-based teaching and teaching mathematics via problem solving on students' understanding of mathematics, and the ways in which the students' beliefs about themselves as doers and learners of mathematics and about mathematics and mathematical problem solving were influenced by …
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INFORMAL MATHEMATICS ACTIVITIES AND THE BELIEFS OF ELEMENTARY TEACHER CANDIDATES
… relationship between participation in informal mathematics activities and the formal-to-informal beliefs of university teacher candidates in elementary education. Three classes of preservice teachers participated in the study through their enrollment in a content mathematics course for …
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INFORMAL MATHEMATICS ACTIVITIES AND THE BELIEFS OF ELEMENTARY TEACHER CANDIDATES
… relationship between participation in informal mathematics activities and the formal-to-informal beliefs of university teacher candidates in elementary education. Three classes of preservice teachers participated in the study through their enrollment in a content mathematics course for …
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A case study of the complexities of learning to teach problem-solving: The effects of a writing process strategy model on seventh-grade students' mathematics performance
… students' problem solving performance and their beliefs about mathematics. This study described through case study methods how the Writing Process Strategy-Model (WPS-Model) became part of the classroom teacher's way of thinking about problem solving instruction.
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The effects of providing mathematical problem -posing experiences for K--8 pre-service teachers: Investigating teachers' beliefs and characteristics of posed problems
<p>This study incorporated problem posing into a mathematics content course for preservice elementary and middle school teachers by extending George Polya's (1957) problem solving heuristic to include problem re-formulation and by having participants pose problems from sets of given information. …
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A Cross-Cultural Study on Variables Influencing Gender Differences in Mathematics Performance
… is to investigate gender differences in mathematics cross culturally (Japan and the United States), and to find whether there are gender differences in their sex-stereotyped beliefs about mathematics, attitudes toward mathematics, learning patterns of mathematics, and problem solving …
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Doing and talking about mathematics: A study of preservice elementary teachers
This dissertation analyzes the understanding and beliefs about mathematics of eight preservice elementary teachers as they did, talked, and wrote about mathematics during an eight week mathematics course. The method of instruction followed an open approach in which the student-subjects worked in …
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Pupils' competencies in proof and argumentation: differences between Korea and Germany at the lower secondary level
… for the difference in pupil performance on mathematics in international study. In more detail, my thesis aims at examining and comparing Korean and German pupils' competencies in proof and argumentation about geometry, especially at the lower secondary level. In addition, pupils' belief …
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One Elementary Teacher's Struggle to Encourage Thinking in Her Mathematics Classroom: A Metaphorical Analysis (Qualitative, Case Study, Ethnographic)
This one year intense study of mathematics teaching and learning focussed on one elementary teacher who taught at a private school for about 25 children, aged 5-10 years old. About 100 hours of fieldnotes, audiotapes, and videotapes were made of this teacher's mathematics classroom and other …
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Revealing What Urban Early Childhood Teachers Think About Mathematics and How They Teach It: Implications for Practice
Hersh (1986) states, "One's conception of what mathematics is affects one's conception of how it should be presented. One's manner of presenting it is an indication of what one believes to be most essential in it." In this research study, three hundred ninety-seven urban early childhood teachers …
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Attitudes and beliefs of preservice elementary school teachers towards mathematics
… detected in prospective teachers' attitudes or beliefs about mathematics as teachers progressed through their required courses of study in mathematics and mathematics education. The study included 164 prospective elementary school teachers who were enrolled in one of three mathematics or …
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From learning to teaching : the impact of pre-service teachers' math experiences on their self-efficacy in the classroom
… the development of self-efficacy for teaching mathematics and their description of how prior experiences as math learners influenced that development. Grounded in Bandura's (1977) theory of self-efficacy, three pre-service teachers who had completed two mathematics methods courses and had begun …
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Student Voices on High School Mathematics Teaching And Learning: College Student Voices on Teacher Behaviors and Actions Impacting High School Mathematics Achievement
… of Educational Progress the national trend in mathematics achievement has not significantly changed from 1973 through 2012 for 17 year olds (National Center for Educational statistics, 2014). Student beliefs about mathematics learning are an important factor in determining the student's math …
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Math teachers who don't like math : a narrative inquiry into the mathematics experience of early childhood and elementary educators who dislike mathematics
… early childhood and elementary educators teach mathematics to children, many of them possess negative attitudes and beliefs about mathematics such as math anxiety and low mathematics self-concept. Understanding how those attitudes and beliefs developed is critical in order to effect change. This …
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Learning and teaching mathematics : interpreting student teacher's voices
This research study has investigated the beliefs that prospective primary school teachers hold about the epistemology of mathematics, and the teaching and learning of mathematics. In particular, it considered the following questions: * What beliefs and attitudes about mathematics and mathematics …
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High Impact Strategies and the Effect It Has on Students’ Mathematics Attitudes
… instrument to measure students’ attitudes and beliefs about mathematics. Martha Tapia developed the Attitudes Toward Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) instrument in 1996 and later Lim and Chapman further refined a short form in 2012. The purpose of the ATMI was to measure mathematics attitudes in …
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Rural High School Mathematics Teachers' Response to Mathematics Reform Curriculum Integration and Professional Development
… study was to examine rural high school mathematics teachers’ responses to the initial implementation of Louisiana’s Comprehensive Curriculum during their second year of involvement in a professional development program. The curriculum changes were the culmination of an alignment between …
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