Analyzing Prospective Elementary Teachers' Mathematics Autobiographies

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Abstract

The purpose of this study was to use mathematics autobiographies to examine prospective elementary teachers’ beliefs about success and failure in mathematics and how those beliefs seemed to relate to their own perceived competence in mathematics. An additional component involved looking at the types of events and experiences the prospective teachers reported as being influential in their attitudes towards mathematics.

Author

• Shannon P. Sweeny, Michigan State University