Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy
It is essential that pre-service teacher educators address pre-service teacher numeracy butwith careful consideration as it incorporates more than mathematics skills. Numeracy alsoinvolves disposition towards mathematics—attitudes, confidence and mathematics anxiety;that is, the level of willingness...
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| author | Cooke, Audrey |
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| description | It is essential that pre-service teacher educators address pre-service teacher numeracy butwith careful consideration as it incorporates more than mathematics skills. Numeracy alsoinvolves disposition towards mathematics—attitudes, confidence and mathematics anxiety;that is, the level of willingness to use mathematics skills. As part of an emphasis ondeveloping pre-service teacher numeracy, a new first year unit was introduced. Pre-serviceteachers were given tools to investigate their competence, attitudes towards, confidencewith, and anxiety regarding mathematics. This paper outlines the changes that wereidentified in the numeracy of these pre-service teachers at the completion of the unit. |
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| spelling | curtin-20.500.11937-115122023-02-13T08:01:37Z Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy Cooke, Audrey Judy Anderson Michael Cavanagh Anne Prescott It is essential that pre-service teacher educators address pre-service teacher numeracy butwith careful consideration as it incorporates more than mathematics skills. Numeracy alsoinvolves disposition towards mathematics—attitudes, confidence and mathematics anxiety;that is, the level of willingness to use mathematics skills. As part of an emphasis ondeveloping pre-service teacher numeracy, a new first year unit was introduced. Pre-serviceteachers were given tools to investigate their competence, attitudes towards, confidencewith, and anxiety regarding mathematics. This paper outlines the changes that wereidentified in the numeracy of these pre-service teachers at the completion of the unit. 2014 Conference Paper http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11512 MEGRA Inc restricted |
| spellingShingle | Cooke, Audrey Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy |
| title | Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy |
| title_full | Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy |
| title_fullStr | Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy |
| title_full_unstemmed | Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy |
| title_short | Preliminary Investigations of Pre-service Teacher Numeracy |
| title_sort | preliminary investigations of pre-service teacher numeracy |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/11512 |