Elementary Preservice Teachers' Visions of Moving Beyond Mathematics Anxiety

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Abstract

Mathematics educators agree that elementary teachers should possess confidence and competence in teaching mathematics. Yet many prospective elementary teachers pursue careers in elementary teaching despite personal repeated experiences of mathematics anxiety. This study analyzes how seventeen prospective elementary teachers began to think about and employ coping strategies to combat mathematics anxiety as they prepared for teaching mathematics in their future classroom. I present implications of my research for mathematics teacher educators.

Author

• Kathleen Jablon Stoehr, Santa Clara University