Mobile math trails: an experience in teacher training with mathcitymap
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Barbosa, Ana Vale, Isabel
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Studies show that the outdoors can be a privileged context to promote positive attitudes towards mathematics. Objectives: We aim to address the following questions: 1) Which pros and cons are pointed out by pre-service teachers of elementary education to the use of MathCityMap (MCM)? 2) How can we characterise the participants’ engagement in a math trail performed with MCM? Design: We followed a qualitative, interpretative methodology. The paradigm choice was because the main goal was to understand the perspective and reactions of the participants to a particular situation. Setting and Participants: The participants were 48 pre-service teachers of elementary education attending the first semester of the 3rd year of an undergraduate course at a public higher education institution in Portugal. Data collection and analysis: Data were collected during the classes of a unit course on Didactics of Mathematics. The pre-service teachers answered a questionnaire, followed by the implementation of a mobile math trail. At the end of this experience, the participants filled out another questionnaire. Participant observation and audio-visual records were also applied. Thus, the analysis involved a qualitative and inductive approach, resorting to content analysis. Results: The pre-service teachers were actively engaged during the math trail, showing interest in solving the tasks, using MCM, and focused on finishing the activity, evidencing persistence and will to be involved in the discussions. We also identified anxiety and frustration related to the outcome of a particular task. Strategies of different nature were used, mainly associated to the level of cognitive demand of the tasks. As pros, they considered the app intuitive, promoting autonomy, spatial orientation and collaborative work and highlighted as cons the inaccessibility to Wi-Fi, younger students’ not having smartphones/tablets, and the limitation of answer formats in task design. Conclusions: Res
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2023
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Actitud | Comprensión | Contextos o situaciones | Desarrollo del profesor | Inicial | Software
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25
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6
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157-182
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21787727
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