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This qualitative case study investigated four preservice secondary school teachers’ mathematical knowledge for teaching equations and the influence their mathematical knowledge for teaching had on their teaching practices. Data were generated using two open ended paper and pencil tests, semi-structured interviews, video lesson recordings, and lesson plans. I analysed the data using thematic analysis. The findings show diversity in the preservice teachers’ Mathematical Knowledge for Teaching....
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This study aims to investigate the curriculum orientations of schools in Turkey and Ghana and to examine the relationship between curriculum orientations. The quantitative method (descriptive study) was adopted in this questionnaire survey-based study. This study was conducted in the Fırat University, Elazığ-Turkey and University of Education - Winneba, Kumasi-Ghana. Mean and standard deviation for the overall of the curriculum orientations and for each orientation were obtained. The results...
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This study investigated a preservice secondary school teacher’s practice of orchestrating classroom discussion when teaching linear equations. Data were generated using video lesson recordings of nine lessons and were analysed using thematic analysis. Themes were developed a-priori from the theoretical framework and a-posteriori from the data. Findings show that the preservice teacher’s capacity to orchestrate classroom discussion was influenced by his mathematical knowledge for teaching. In...
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Purpose The purpose of this paper is to better understand the challenges involved in introducing Lesson Study (LS) into teacher education in Malawi by studying mathematics teacher educators’ (TEs’) understanding of planning for LS. Design/methodology/approach This study is a part of a wider ongoing project designed to improve the quality and capacity of mathematics teacher education in Malawi. One of its components is professional development of all mathematics TEs in Malawi using an LS...
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For Nigeria to attain her Vision 20: 2020, the school curricula must change in line with the development in technology. Teachers should be able to adapt technology into the teaching and learning process. Three non-intellectual elements that affect the degree of integration of technology into teaching and learning are attitude toward computer, computer anxiety and computer self-efficacy. The study investigated attitudes towards computer, computer anxiety and gender as determinants of computer...
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The use of technology has gained worldwide recognition in all professions. Teachers have resorted to several technology tools to enhance the work they do in the classroom and to facilitate the understanding of what they teach their students to enhance easy recall and for students to remember what they learn in class.
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This paper examines the significance and contribution of teaching practice (TP) to the development of pre-service teachers knowledge of teaching mathematics in Zimbabwe. Education researchers, across the globe, concur that teaching practice is an important component of learning to teach. However, underachievement in mathematics the world over has been consistently high, and regardless of the long TP period in Zimbabwe, the failure rate in mathematics in Zimbabwe has always been dismal. This...
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This article analyses social variables that cause student absenteeism from mathematics classes. It contrasts teachers perceptions with the perceptions of students undertaking their second and third levels of a Bachelors degree in Physics and Chemistry at the Pedagogical Graduate School (PGS) of Namibe, Angola. To perform this analysis, a Likert scale questionnaire was undertaken and descriptive and inferential statistical tests, a correlation analysis, a variance analysis, and a multivariate...
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Purpose The purpose of the study is to investigate the effectiveness of applying the Flipped Classroom Instructional Model to the rural online tutoring program for Upper Elementary Mathematics. Design/methodology/approach The study took the unequal-group pretest-posttest quasiexperimental design to conduct the teaching experiment. The research setting was the Digital Partner Online Tutoring Program of National Dong-Hwa University, which was supported by the Ministry of Education of Taiwan...
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This paper discusses applied research initiatives led by Save the Children in Rwanda that were used to inform advocacy and policy efforts surrounding the expansion of high quality early childhood education (ECE) services in Rwanda. Qualitative and quantitative studies were carried out around a new program focused on improving early literacy and math competencies (the Emergent Literacy and Maths Initiative (ELMI)) from 20132017. They include a Political Economy Analysis in 20132014 and...
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Teacher education is an important pillar of every education system worldwide. Consequently, there is a need to determine the efficacy of teacher education programs in preparing good-quality teachers. The aim of this study is to investigate the impact of learned media and teaching skills on the teaching of mathematics in secondary schools. We therefore explore how secondary school mathematics teachers perceive the effect of media practicals and microteaching on teaching practice through a...
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This study investigates the impact of secondary school students perceptions of mathematics teachers formative assessment practices and feedback delivery on their feedback use, and mathematics performance. The sample consisted of 2767 Form 3 (Grade 11) students from 48 secondary schools in Tanzania. Surveys and focus group discussions were used to measure students perceptions of formative assessment, feedback delivery, and feedback use. Structural Equation Modelling (SEM) of survey data...
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This study investigated student mathematics teachers' ability to recognise and explain their understanding of school level functions. We challenged the assumption that studying advanced mathematics automatically develops an understanding of school mathematics that is sufficient to explain concepts and justify reasoning. This case study tested this assumption by exploring the depth of pre-service mathematics student teachers' understanding of school function concepts at the University of...
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Literature is replete with research confirming the benefits of cooperative learning on students' academic achievement and attitude towards mathematics. Despite these benefits, cooperative learning implementation in most Zambian secondary school mathematics classrooms has remained a challenge. An explanatory sequential mixed methods research design was employed to determine the causes of teacher-resistance to cooperative learning implementation in selected schools. A cluster random sampling...
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This study compares the literacy and numeracy attainments of naturalized refugees and the majority rural and urban local children in Tanzania. Samples of 150 pupils were administered Early Grades Reading/Mathematics Assessment. Further, 45 parents and three principals were individually interviewed. Results indicate that naturalized refugees outperformed both urban and rural majority on literacy measures. On numeracy tests, naturalized refugees outperformed the rural majority and had...
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The disturbing issue of mathematics underachievement among gifted students seems more like a mystery than a reality and therefore calls for urgent intervention. This is why this study was motivated to investigate the psycho-social predictors that are reliable in discriminating potential achievers and underachieving gifted students in Mathematics. The study is a causal comparative study of 154 gifted SSII students purposively selected through multi-stage screening form 15 secondary schools in...