Math teachers - what about math teachers?
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What about mathematics teachers? A project about uncovering the aspiring mathematics teachers beliefs about mathematics and mathematics teachers
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Presentation held at a local meeting in a mathematics department. The project presented is about uncovering beginning mathematics teacher students' beliefs and attitudes towards mathematics and mathematics teachers.
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What about mathematics teachers?
A project about uncovering the aspiring mathematics teachers beliefs about
mathematics and mathematics teachers
NO Stick figures
allowed!
Students’ first task at HiST
Draw a mathematics
teacher
You have 4 minutes!
Why would this be of interest?
Insight into students’ beliefs about mathematics teachers
Friendly activity to ease up on the first day
Great for discussing myths and meanings about mathematics and mathematics teachers.
We can refer back to the students’ drawings as knowledge constructed in class
What made me think…
The students who drew these did it in different years with a background from different parts in the country. How come they were so similar!?
What did the students draw?
Around 500 drawingshttp://
www.slideshare.net/oisteing/matematikklreren-2010
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agi__Ua0LaCwdDBJRDZRTFhIQUhnMkF0Q0x4SUpxVkE&usp=sharing
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Agi__Ua0LaCwdDBJRDZRTFhIQUhnMkF0Q0x4SUpxVkE&usp=sharing
Tiresome categorizing and coding…
The human being
- Mostly men (70 %)- And they were drawn by mostly women (ca. 80 %?)
- Most of them have glasses (70 %)- Lot of facial hair and at the same time loss of
hair- Unfriendly appearance- Checkered clothes (oh, this is so true…)- Vests (!)- Clothes with mathematics on (!!)
Checkered clothing
Loss of hair
Facial hairUnfriendly appearance
Glasses
The mathematics
• In the shape of finished products on the blackboard– Almost never as a process or activity
• Often mathematics that make no sense at all
The pedagogical practice
Many teachers are drawn with some tools– Rulers– Pointers and other dated resources– Almost no calculators– One single teacher (1) drawn with a laptop or
desktop
Some favorites
Wow. What happened here?
Lærerne gikk som om de gikk igjen. En vissen, grinet flokk, som gjennom årene
utviklet hver sin særhet til karikatur; fordi deres ensomme liv var å sitte på
kateteret og strø støv på en ungdom de ikke forstod.
Alexander Kielland, Gift, 1883.
The teachers were walking as were they spectres. A withered, cranky herd that through the mists of time transformed their own peculiarities into caricature.
Because their lonely lifes were to be sitting by their desks, sprinkling dust on
a youth they could not understand.
Alexander Kielland, Gift, 1883.(My translation)
