Pre-service Teachers’ Attitudes to Mathematics and Teaching Mathematics
Abstract
Teachers’, especially pre-service
teachers’, attitudes –not only toward
the subject of mathematics, but also toward the teaching of mathematics – are
important because a meaningful relation exists between attitudes to teaching
mathematics and the formation of positive attitudes to mathematics among
pupils. Furthermore, attitudes at the beginning of teaching careers are
important and to predict future attitudes. The purpose of the study is to
determine the attitudes to mathematics and teaching mathematics of pre-service
teachers. In the study, the questionnaire "Teaching Mathematics" was
used to gather information. A total of 254 pre-service teachers from primary
school and preschool streams were examined in order to determine the effect of
a number of independent factors, such as program, gender and age, on total
attitude score. The results revealed that pre-service primary education
teachers have more positive attitudes towards mathematics than pre-service
pre-school teachers. But there is no
significant no differences were found between preschool and primary school
teachers’ attitudes towards teaching mathematics. On the other hand, male
candidate teachers have more positive attitudes towards both mathematics and
teaching mathematics than female candidates. Finally, various suggestions were
presented for future studies in accordance with the findings obtained.
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Details
Primary Language
English
Subjects
Studies on Education
Journal Section
Research Article
Publication Date
January 30, 2018
Submission Date
October 22, 2017
Acceptance Date
January 22, 2018
Published in Issue
Year 2018 Volume: 2 Number: 1
