Abstract:
In this paper, we introduce an emerging framework for designing a History and Philosophy of Mathematics course at the master’s level for preservice mathematics teachers (PMTs). The components are i) knowledge of mathematics and its history, ii) belief about/attitudes towards mathematics and its history, iii) beliefs about/attitudes towards using history in teaching mathematics and iv) design capacity of history-inspired mathematics lessons. We provide examples of certain topics that we used in our course and discuss how those contributed to our PMTs´ knowledge and beliefs connected to the above categories.
Sponsorship:
This project has received funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No 951822. H2020 číslo 951822, Enhancement of research excellence in mathematics teacher knowledge, acronym MaTeK (projectmatek.eu).
