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What skills and knowledge do university mathematics teacher education programs give future teachers in Costa Rica?
(2020)
High-quality teaching is crucial for improving mathematics education. Teaching mathematics requires specific
knowledge, including knowledge of both content and pedagogy. In this study, we analyzed the knowledge for ...
Knowledge of preservice elementary teachers on fractions
(Universidad Nacional, Costa Rica, 2021)
On the Nature of Mathematical Knowledge
(2011-01-01)
An important point of contention in the philosophy of mathematics concerns the existence of mathematical objects. Platonists believe they exist independently; nominalists, that they are only linguistic constructs; formalists, ...
History for the Teaching of Mathematics: Transformation and Mobilization of Mathematical Knowledge for School
(Pedagogical Research, 2020-05)
This article aims to discuss processes of transformation and mobilization of knowledge related to the history of
Mathematics as a teaching approach for mathematics at the Basic Education level. The core of the discussion ...
Learning about the effectiveness of teacher education: A Chilean study
(2010)
The article reviews some of the problems faced by teacher education in general and in Chile specifically, and on this basis, presents the results of a study focused on the effects of six teacher education programmes on ...
Construing Professional Knowledge of Secondary School Teachers of Mathematics: A Historical Perspective
(Pedagogical Research, 2020-04)
The purpose of this text is to map knowledge conveyed at the discipline of Methodology of Mathematical Sciences at Escola Normal Superior of Coimbra that began functioning in 1912 until 1930. Firstly, requirements for ...
ARE THEY READY? A study about preservice mathematics teachers’ education in Costa Rica
(2022-09)
The knowledge, professional skills and beliefs of mathematics teachers significantly
influence their quality of teaching. Teacher education programs (TEPs) offer pre service teachers (PSTs) opportunities to acquire the ...
Appealing multimodal languages to access first year university students’ understanding of mathematical concepts in Costa Rica
(2018-01)
The current situation regarding the lack of skills and mathematical knowledge that students have
when entering the university, has caused that institutions of higher education take certain actions
such as the inclusion ...
Integration of didactical knowledge and mathematical content knowledge in pre-service teacher training
(Facultad de Educación, 2004)
We suggest some ideas about how content knowledge and didactical knowledge could be integrated in pre-service secondary mathematics teachers' training. We identify the activities we expect a teacher to perform when planning ...