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The Preparation of Mathematics Teachers in Australia Meeting the demand for suitably qualified mathematics teachers in secondary schools Report prepared for Australian Council of Deans of Science Kerri-Lee Harris and Felicity Jensz Centre for the Study of Higher Education The University of Melbourne July 2006
ISBN 0 7340 3661 2 ISBN 0 7340 3662 0 (electronic/internet copy) © Centre for the Study of Higher Education, University of Melbourne 2006. Except as provided by the Copyright Act 1968, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means without the prior written permission of the publisher. This report was commissioned by the Australian Council of Deans of Science
Page 4 and 5: Contents Contents..................
Page 6 and 7: Table 6.3 Average age of secondary
Page 8 and 9: Recommendations: The Australian Cou
Page 10 and 11: • Heads of mathematics expressed
Page 12: Acknowledgements This report was pr
Page 15 and 16: Chapter 2: The study’s purpose, m
Page 17 and 18: Questions involving named school su
Page 19 and 20: Box 1: Definitions of selected term
Page 21 and 22: Table 3.1 Responses to survey of he
Page 23 and 24: 60.0% 50.0% 40.0% New South Wales Q
Page 25 and 26: Table 3.5 The number of respondents
Page 27 and 28: Table 3.7 Range of teaching respons
Page 29 and 30: • The expectation of most heads w
Page 31 and 32: In light of the recognised differen
Page 33 and 34: Chapter 5: Mathematics teachers - t
Page 35 and 36: Table 5.2 Number of units of mathem
Page 37 and 38: 100% 80% 60% 40% major less than ma
Page 39 and 40: Table 5.6 Teachers’ perceptions o
Page 41 and 42: Table 5.7 Teachers’ comments rega
Page 43 and 44: Further analysis revealed a relatio
Page 45 and 46: 5.6 Tertiary qualifications of math
Page 47 and 48: Table 6.1 Responses received to the
Page 49 and 50: difference was marked by a ‘spike
Page 51 and 52: 400 350 300 250 200 150 100 50 0 20
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250 200 < 5 yrs experience (n=479)
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Table 6.8 Career plans of early car
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Chapter 7: Recruiting and retaining
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In previous years I have had little
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7.2 The career plans of mathematics
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(Yes) - Getting too old to teach PE
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have contributed to this trend, inc
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Chapter 8: What attracts people to
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8.2 Suggestions for attracting more
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Chapter 9: Conclusions The growing
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Appendix 1: Schools surveyed - addi
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Table A1.4 Number of responses from
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Appendix 3: Demographics of mathema
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References Barrington, F. and Brown
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