Although there has been considerable interest in teachers’ knowledge for teaching mathematics for nearly a quarter of a century, little attention has been paid to the knowledge of mathematics teacher educators. The responses of 57 MERGA members to an online survey addressing beliefs about mathematics and its teaching, mathematics content knowledge and mathematics pedagogical content knowledge are reported. Teacher educators found the items addressing pedagogical content knowledge more difficult than mathematics content questions or endorsing beliefs, and the type of employment appeared to be a more important influence on outcomes than the level of mathematics studied.
History
Publication title
Mathematics Education: Expanding Horizons - Proceedings of the 35th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia
Editors
J Dindyal, LP Cheng and SW Ng
Pagination
162-169
ISBN
978-981-07-2527-3
Department/School
Faculty of Education
Publisher
MERGA Inc.
Place of publication
Singapore
Event title
35th Annual Conference of the Mathematics Education Research Group of Australasia