PROCEEDINGS OF THE 20TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE ON RESEARCH IN UNDERGRADUATE MATHEMATICS EDUCATION
2017
San Diego, California
The use of NCTM articles as reading assignments to motivate prospective elementary teacher engagement in mathematics courses
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In this study, we examine the use of assigning articles published in NCTM’s practitioner journalsas readings in mathematics content courses for prospective elementary teachers (PTs). Inparticular, we study the articles’ roles in motivating PTs to engage in their content courses. As aconceptual foundation, we characterize NCTM articles as having potential to (1) increase PTs’“buy-in” of pedagogical approaches used in content courses, (2) challenge PTs’ unproductivebeliefs about mathematics, and (3) address mathematics content via children’s thinking. We planto analyze an existing dataset of PTs’ online typed responses to assigned NCTM articles toidentify whether and how their responses reflect increased motivation to engage in their contentcourses. We anticipate that our results will lead to an increased understanding of PTs’ actualexperiences related to the assigned article readings.Key words