This research examines middle school mathematics pre-service teachers' professional development during two years of their study at a teacher college regarding their perceptions of ICT use in their teaching of mathematics, specifically as a result of their preparation in ICT integration in the mathematics classroom in the frame of two didactic courses (in their second year of study) and in the frame of practicing teaching mathematics with technological tools (in their third year of study). The results indicated that generally, the pre-service teachers, as a result of their two years preparation, perceived the importance of integrating diverse technological tools in the mathematics classroom, probably because of the visual aspect of mathematics that the technological tools enable, which helps students with their learning of mathematics and encourage them to do so because they are part of their lives.

Conference Title

The 11th International Conference on Technology in Mathematics Teaching ICTMT11

Conference Country

Italy

Conference Date

July 9, 2013 - July 12, 2013

Conference Sponsor

epartment of Mathematics at the University of Bari Aldo Moro and the Department of Mathematics "Giuseppe Peano" at the University of Torino

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