• Semester 1 (Day)

Synopsis

Pre-service  education students will be asked  to  examine  their  own
attitudes,  beliefs and appreciations of mathematics, as reflected  by
the way they present mathematical ideas, the language they use, and so
on.   Theories  relating  to  the  development  of  attitudes  towards
mathematics teaching and learning will be discussed, and approaches to
changing negative attitudes will be considered.

Students  will be challenged to examine how the attitudes and  beliefs
of  learners of mathematics strongly influence not only the ways  they
go  about  learning  mathematics, but also  the  type  of  links  they
establish  between  their own personal worlds and formal  mathematics.
The nature of links between cognition and affect will be explored.