Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia
With the cooperation of a group of our education students and some of our schools, we have developed a video containing a series of brief teaching segments. The episodes focus on a variety of numeracy tasks and help to expose some of the common mis-understandings and mis-conceptions held by primary students. Each episode also illustrates the approach adopted by the novice teacher to overcoming the learning difficulty of the child and that adopted by the teacher educator. Students are invited to consider ways of dealing with various aspects of the problems presented by the children. . We are suggesting that video material such as this has the potential to assist pre-service teachers to grow their own personal, practical theories about teaching mathematics in the primary years of schooling.