“…The Science Education Institute -Department of Science and Technology and the Philippine Council of Mathematics Teachers Educators, Inc. (SEI-DOST & MATHTED) both admitted that Philippine mathematics teacher education status is alarming (SEI- DOST & MATHTED, 2011). This was confirmed by several studies, which revealed that Filipino preservice teachers have incompetency in whole numbers and decimals, fractions, ratio and proportion, geometry, and measurement (Lee-Chua, 2012); poor achievement in both fundamental and contemporary mathematics (Andaya, 2014); competency indicators behind proficiency level (Roble & Bacabac, 2016); poor common and specialized mathematical content knowledge (Pelingon, 2019); low probability and correlational thinking (Domingo et al, 2021); weak conceptual knowledge of the five notions of fraction as part-whole, operator, measure, quotient, and ratio (Ibañez & Pentang, 2021); inadequate mathematical content knowledge and problem-solving skill (Pentang, 2019); and lack problem-solving in statistics (Bacangallo et al, 2022). These findings indicate that Filipino preservice teachers have yet to develop mastery of various mathematical concepts and applications of different problem-solving strategies (Andrade & Pasia, 2020).…”