Basic components in the scienctific didactical training of the secondary school mathematics teachers

Secondary mathematics teacher training in Spain is currently the subject of a heated revision debate. The speed of social, cultural, scientific and economic changes have left a hundred years old teacher training model well behind. However, academical inertia and professional interests are impeding a real new training of the mathematics teacher as an autonomous mathematical educator. Teachers of Didactic of Mathematics and the Spanish Associations of mathematics teachers have recently been discussing the issue. Their conclusions are included here.

New GCSE AQA Mathematics: Teacher´s Book Unit 3 Higher.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (AQA) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: fracciones y decimales, ángulos y áreas, trabajando con símbolos, porcentajes y ratios, ecuaciones y fórmulas, propiedades de los polígonos, gráficos, el teorema de Pitágoras, propiedades de los círculos, medidas, trigonometría, vectores, ecuaciones simultáneas, funciones exponenciales. Las respuestas a los ejercicios se encuentran al final del libro.

New GCSE AQA Mathematics: Teacher´s Book Unit 3 Foundation.

Este libro cumple las expectativas de los alumnos de matemáticas en relación a los exámenes de secundaria (AQA) para obtener el General Certificate of Secondary Education (GCSE). Los temas del libro son: fracciones y decimales, ángulos (ángulos y líneas, ángulos y líneas paralelas, ángulos y triángulos), trabajando con símbolos, porcentajes y ratios, perímetro y área (perímetro y área de un rectángulo, área de paralelogramos y triángulos, circunferencia y área de un círculo), ecuaciones, propiedades de los polígonos, gráficos, fórmulas, área y volumen, medidas, dibujando y midiendo líneas, ángulos y círculos.

Mathematics teachers' ideas about mathematical models : a diverse landscape

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Relationship between classroom authority and epistemological beliefs as espoused by primary school mathematics teachers from the very high and very low socio-economic regions in Thailand

This article presents findings of a larger single-country comparative study which set out to better understand primary school teachers’ mathematics education-related beliefs in Thailand. By combining the interview and observation data collected in the initial stage of this study with data gathered from the relevant literature, the 8-belief / 22-item ‘Thai Teachers’ Mathematics Education-related Beliefs’ (TTMEB) Scale was developed. The results of the Mann-Whitney U Test showed that Thai teachers in the two examined socio-economic regions espouse statistically different beliefs concerning the source and stability of mathematical knowledge, as well as classroom authority. Further, these three beliefs are found to be significantly and positively correlated.

Development of prospective mathematics teachers’ professional noticing in a specific domain: proportional reasoning

The aim of this research is to identify aspects that support the development of prospective mathematics teachers’ professional noticing in a b-learning context. The study presented here investigates the extent to which prospective secondary mathematics teachers attend and interpret secondary school students’ proportional reasoning and decide how to respond. Results show that interactions in an on-line discussion improve prospective mathematics teachers’ ability to identify and interpret important aspects of secondary school students’ mathematical thinking.

The Texas mathematics teachers' bulletin.

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Handbook for organizations of mathematics teachers /

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Adaptation of a questionnaire to assess the epistemological beliefs of mathematics in secondary school teachers

The objective of the study is to determine the psychometric properties of the Epistemological Beliefs Questionnaire on Mathematics. 171 Secondary School Mathematics Teachers of the Central Region of Cuba participated. The results show acceptable internal consistency. The factorial structure of the scale revealed three major factors, consistent with the Model of the Three Constructs: beliefs about knowledge, about learning and teaching. Irregular levels in the development of the epistemological belief system about mathematics of these teachers were shown, with a tendency among naivety and sophistication poles. In conclusion, the questionnaire is useful for evaluating teacher’s beliefs about mathematics.

Teachers' professional learning within communities of mathematics-for-teaching practice

Ontario bansho is an emergent mathematics instructional strategy used by teachers working within communities of practice that has been deemed to have a transformational effect on teachers' professional learning of mathematics. This study sought to answer the following question: How does teachers' implementation of Ontario bansho within their communities of practice inform their professional learning process concerning mathematics-for-teaching? Two other key questions also guided the study: What processes support teachers' professional learning of content-for-teaching? What conditions support teachers' professional learning of content-for-teaching? The study followed an interpretive phenomenological approach to collect data using a purposive sampling of teachers as participants. The researcher conducted interviews and followed an interpretive approach to data analysis to investigate how teachers construct meaning and create interpretations through their social interactions. The study developed a model of professional learning made up of 3 processes, informing with resources, engaging with students, and visualizing and schematizing in which the participants engaged and 2 conditions, ownership and community that supported the 3 processes. The 3 processes occur in ways that are complex, recursive, nonpredictable, and contextual. This model provides a framework for facilitators and leaders to plan for effective, content-relevant professional learning by placing teachers, students, and their learning at the heart of professional learning.