Sixty‐five preservice elementary teachers' math anxiety levels and confidence levels to teach elementary mathematics and science were measured. The confidence scores of subjects in different math anxiety groups were compared and the relationships between their math anxiety levels and confidence levels to teach mathematics and science were investigated. The results suggest that low math anxious preservice teachers are more confident to teach elementary mathematics and science than are their peers having higher levels of math anxiety. Negative correlations were found between preservice teachers' math anxiety and their confidence scores to teach elementary mathematics (r = −.638) and between preservice teachers' math anxiety and their confidence scores to teach elementary science (r = ‐.417). Also, personal math and science teaching self‐efficacy scores of participants were found to be correlated at .01 level (r =.549).
My granny was a great one for quilting. She had this big flour sack full of scraps. Squares and triangles and diamonds and stripes, all colors. Soft shiny pieces of Mam's petticoats. Rough scratchy pieces from Pap's work pants” (Howard 1996, p. 1). Stories of quilts can be as comforting to children as quilted bed coverings. Quilt stories are found in children's books and in the quilts themselves, which can help unravel stories about real people that quilts have pieced together. Quilts have been made by all socioeconomic levels and all ethnic groups in America, making them valuable historical and artistic artifacts that tell stories of the past. Quilting is sometimes called “memory's art.”
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