Exploring Exceptional Education Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety

This study investigated preservice teachers’ levels of mathematics anxiety before and after a mathematics methods course. Changes were measured using manipulatives and other activities to make mathematics concepts more concrete and meaningful. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were utilized...

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Autor principal:	Gina Gresham
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Publicado:	Georgia Southern University 2021
Materias:	exceptional education preservice teachers mathematics anxiety mathematics methods course Theory and practice of education LB5-3640
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:ba32f6d05223450098aa7842c36500322021-12-02T18:48:35ZExploring Exceptional Education Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety1931-474410.20429/ijsotl.2021.150213https://doaj.org/article/ba32f6d05223450098aa7842c36500322021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://digitalcommons.georgiasouthern.edu/ij-sotl/vol15/iss2/13https://doaj.org/toc/1931-4744This study investigated preservice teachers’ levels of mathematics anxiety before and after a mathematics methods course. Changes were measured using manipulatives and other activities to make mathematics concepts more concrete and meaningful. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were utilized. Informal discussions, informal interviews, and questionnaire-guided narrative interviews were conducted. Data revealed a statistically significant reduction in mathematics anxiety (p < .001). Results have implications for teacher education programs concerning the measurement of mathematics anxiety levels among exceptional education preservice teachers and the determination of specific contexts in which mathematics anxiety can be interpreted and reduced.Gina GreshamGeorgia Southern Universityarticleexceptional education preservice teachersmathematics anxietymathematics methods courseTheory and practice of educationLB5-3640ENInternational Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, Vol 15, Iss 2 (2021)
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description	This study investigated preservice teachers’ levels of mathematics anxiety before and after a mathematics methods course. Changes were measured using manipulatives and other activities to make mathematics concepts more concrete and meaningful. Both quantitative and qualitative measures were utilized. Informal discussions, informal interviews, and questionnaire-guided narrative interviews were conducted. Data revealed a statistically significant reduction in mathematics anxiety (p < .001). Results have implications for teacher education programs concerning the measurement of mathematics anxiety levels among exceptional education preservice teachers and the determination of specific contexts in which mathematics anxiety can be interpreted and reduced.
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Exploring Exceptional Education Preservice Teachers’ Mathematics Anxiety

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