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- Title
Preservice Elementary Teachers' Attitudes Improve and Math Anxiety Decreases with Focus upon Manipulatives Use.
- Authors
Barrett, Diane
- Abstract
While mathematical anxiety varies from person to person, for some this anxiety can be devastating. This study aimed to determine whether or not preservice elementary teachers' attitudes toward using mathematics manipulatives with their future students would improve and preservice elementary teachers' math anxiety would decrease through participation in a mathematics-for-elementary-teachers class that focused upon how to use mathematics manipulatives in the classroom. The results of the study indicated that by participating in a class focused on the instructionally sound use of manipulatives in a mathematics class for preservice elementary teachers increased their attitudes toward the use of manipulatives in the mathematics classroom at a statistically significant level, and decreased their math anxiety.
- Subjects
STUDENT teachers; MATH anxiety; MATHEMATICS education; EDUCATIONAL psychology; TEACHER attitudes; EDUCATION research
- Publication
National Teacher Education Journal, 2013, Vol 6, Issue 2, p5
- ISSN
2157-0590
- Publication type
Article