JMTE, April 2008

The April issue of Journal of Mathematics Teacher Education has been published. The following articles are enclosed:

Imagination as a tool in mathematics teacher education

Olive Chapman

Investigating teachers’ images of mathematics

Gladys Sterenberg

Learning to observe: using video to improve preservice mathematics teachers’ ability to notice

Jon R. Star and Sharon K. Strickland

Development of a performance assessment task and rubric to measure prospective secondary school mathematics teachers’ pedagogical content knowledge and skills

Hari P. Koirala, Marsha Davis and Peter Johnson

The relationship among elementary teachers’ content knowledge, attitudes, beliefs, and practices

Jesse L. M. Wilkins

This is an interesting collection of articles, addressing a multitude of perspectives from the use of video in teacher education in the article by Jon R. Star and Sharon K. Strickland to Jesse L.M. Wilkins' focus on the relationship between content knowledge, attitudes, beliefs and practices by elementary teachers. I find the latter article especially interesting, since it aims at analyzing relationships between knowledge, beliefs, attitudes and practices at the same time. All four are large fields of research, and this is therefore a brave attempt. I would like to question the choice of investigating the teachers' practice through self-reporting in a survey though.