Teacher Education

Our research has also taken us more recently to include a focus on mathematics teacher education. One could see this as a response to the newer needs (since 2020) in our jurisdiction to prepare mathematics teachers to integrate coding in their Gr. 1-9 mathematics teaching (see C.3 here for grade 1-8 coding expectations and see section C.2 here for grade 9 coding expectations).

One of the works we have undertaken concerns the re-design of a university programming-based mathematics course focused on pure or applied inquiry projects specifically offered to future mathematics teachers. Our research also aims at focusing on the future teachers’ learning in this course.

Here are two publications outlining pre-service and inservice teachers’ experiences engaging in the final project of this redesigned course, which involves pre-service teachers collaborating with in-service teachers to implement a coding activity in a Grade 5-9 classroom:

Here are some preliminary works and resources:

Selected (Re-designed) 2022 Course Material:

Future teachers’ collaborative final projects in collaboration with local teachers for the preparation and implementation of a coding and math activity in the Gr. 5-9 classroom:

Here are some works from the Coding, Computational Modelling, and Equity in Mathematics Education 2023 Symposium:

See here for our Online Seminar Series on Programming in Mathematics Education, see here.