Mathematics anxiety affects primary pre-service teachers' engagement with and future teaching of mathematics. The study aimed to assess the level and range of mathematics anxiety in first year pre-service teachers entering their teacher education course, and to investigate the sources of this anxiety as perceived and identified by them. Data…

The paper reports some findings about how pre-service students engage with the mathematics and statistics section of the "New Zealand Curriculum" (2007), when writing a yearly long-term plan in this curriculum area. This authentic task for pre-service students provided opportunities to seek out information about relevant curriculum…

Working collaboratively with the researchers, a small team of teachers developed and taught a lesson based on the Teaching for Abstraction model (White & Mitchelmore, 2010). This paper reports how one teacher learned about the model and implemented it in her lesson. It was found that she had assimilated several key features of the model, such…