Teaching practice: Contributions to Spanish prospective mathematics teachers

• Published in: Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science and Technology Education Vol. 20; no. 10; p. em2516
• Main Authors: Fernández-Cézar, Raquel, Jiménez-Alcázar, Alfonso, Huete Huete, Mª Ángeles, Rabelo Procópio, Marcos Vinicios, García-Moya, Melody
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: East Sussex 01.10.2024
• Subjects: Mathematics; Mathematics teachers
• ISSN: 1305-8215; 1305-8223
• DOI: 10.29333/ejmste/15200

Prospective primary education (PE) teachers of mathematics are trained on university programs which include core subjects in the field of the didactics of mathematics. However, these subjects have no general practical component. Therefore, this research aims to analyze the contribution of practical courses to the development of good practice in mathematics education. For this purpose, an ethnographic study was carried out with the participation of 23 prospective teachers who completed a questionnaire with closed and open-ended questions. The closed responses were analyzed by frequency and percentage, and the open-ended responses were analyzed using the ATLAS.ti software (v. 22) (ATLAS.ti, 2022). The results show that most of the prospective teachers identified principles of good practice in mathematics classes, and most of them found a relationship between their initial training and what they experienced in these classrooms. In the light of the results, contributions are made to improve the initial training of mathematics teachers in PE.