Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Noticing

Speaker: 
Zetra Putra, U. Riau,  Indonesia and Trnava U., Slovakia

Title;
Pre-service Elementary Teachers’ Noticing on Mathematical and Didactic Praxeology in a Virtual Tour of Malay Architecture

Abstract: 
The integration of culture and mathematics into digital technology presents an opportunity to support teacher education courses, especially in a culturally diverse country like Indonesia. In this study, we developed 360-degree virtual tours of several Malay architectural and cultural buildings in Riau Province. These objects served as a medium to explore pre-service elementary teachers' noticing of mathematical and didactic praxeology. We conducted the study with pre-service elementary teachers from an teacher education institution in Pekanbaru, Indonesia. In this talk, we present the results from nine pre-service elementary teachers worked in a small group of three to explore some mathematical praxeologies in virtual tours and construct some didactic ideas for teaching mathematics in elementary school level. The findings indicated that they were able to notice some mathematical features in the virtual tours, but they focused on direct observation of macro-objects and mathematical properties related to those objects. Pre-service elementary teachers still focused on the practical aspects of mathematical praxeology rather than emphasizing theoretical lens to justify it. Thus, an instructional design on how to use a virtual tour as a medium to support pre-service elementary teachers' mathematical and didactic praxeology still needs to be further developed and discussed.