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The National Council of Teachers of Mathematics in its 1991 publication Professional Standards for Teaching Mathematics (NCTM, 1991) and the current Mathematics Program Standards for the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE,...

It is documented that a large number of elementary teachers experience significant levels of math anxiety (Buhlman,Young,1982) that tends to lower math achievement and incompatible with effective math instruction (Hadfield & McNeil, 1994). Research...

Simon (1993) suggests that the conceptual weaknesses which prospective teachers exhibit are obstacles for these teachers to appropriately teach concepts and procedures to students. In addition, one of the sources of mathematics anxiety that future...

This short paper presents the comprehensive instructional technology preparation of preservice teachers and the limited utilization of this technology during the professional semester. Results of a survey on usage are reported and strategies to...

While interactive polling technology has been available for over a decade, little research has been done on the effects the technology has in the classroom. Several articles (for example, Panayiotidis, A. & Masikunas, G., 2005 and Draper & Brown,...

The tablet PC provides a valuable new tool to track assessment and to reach visual learners and shy students. Currently it is used in education and discrete math classes. In education classes students submit work online and tablet grading provides...

Videostreaming has been demonstrated to improve the learning achievement of Middle School students(Holodick & Smith, 2006).It is a technique used by (potential)teachers to incorporate videoclips directly from the web into lessons.Griffin(2005) wrote ...