Abstract:A significant percentage of preservice early childhood and elementary teachers display math anxiety and other negative attitudes about mathematics (Kaasila, Hannula, & Laine, 2012).Teacher education courses, although designed in part to develop more positive attitudes toward mathematics (Lake & Kelly, 2014), do not always effect change in the teachers (Raymond, 1997), so that many practicing early childhood and elementary teachers still dislike, fear, or believe they are not good in mathematics (Ginsburg, Lee,… Show more
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