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How Croatian mathematics teachers organize their teaching: differences according to the initial education

Initial education of mathematics teachers is important for teaching and learning mathematics in school classrooms. Some studies showed that there exists a relation between students’ achievement and teachers’ mathematical and pedagogical content knowledge. In Croatian lower secondary education, there are mathematics teachers who significantly differ in their initial education. In this paper, we examine teaching practices of two groups of mathematics teachers ; those who finished former pedagogical academies and those who obtained their degrees from departments of mathematics. Using qualitative methods as observations and interviews, we investigated the teaching practice of 12 lower secondary mathematics teachers with special reference to the utilization of the textbook. Results showed that these two groups of teachers differ in the use of textbooks, but also in some other parts of teaching practice.

mathematics teacher, initial education, textbook, teaching practice, qualitative study

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