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Movshovitz-Hadar, Nitsa; Hadass, Rina – 1989
Teacher preparation curriculum at Technion--Israel Institute of Technology (Israel) includes courses intended to bridge the gap between the pure mathematics courses and those in psychology. The focus of this paper is an experimental program for one of these courses and data collected while implementing it. This is a second report on a naturalistic…
Descriptors: College Mathematics, College Students, Concept Formation, Foreign Countries
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Pehkonen, Erkki – International Journal of Mathematical Education in Science and Technology, 1999
Clarifies what kind of mathematical beliefs are conveyed to student teachers during their studies. Interviews mathematics professors (n=7) from five Finnish universities who were responsible for mathematics teacher education. Professors estimated that teachers' basic knowledge was poor and old-fashioned, requiring improvement, and they emphasized…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Knowledge Base for Teaching, Mathematics Education