Message from Student Teacher Constructed Posters

Shajahan HajaThis paper reports the upshot of a poster contest ‘Mathematics-Language of the Universe’ conducted for prospective teachers on 10.11.2002 in ‘Tuticorin, India’. 20 student teachers (12 females& 8 males) from 7 colleges of education in ‘India’ participated in the poster contest. I designed the poster contest to meet the objective of out bringing the concept orientation of student teachers (STs) towards mathematics and to provide an opportunity to organise their thinking about mathematics in a creative way. The contest delineates the specific objectives of exposing the significance of mathematics, utility value of mathematics in daily life and social values of mathematics by way of eliciting the prospective math teacher’s ideas. Philosophy in Mathematics, aesthetic beauty of Mathematics, Mathematics and art of living, Mathematics and religious tolerance are some of the themes selected by the STs. Role of Mathematics in the development of human science, Mathematical symbols and shapes used in daily life, Mathematics and aeronautics are some other concepts used by the contestants. 4 STs depicted how Mathematics promotes other subjects by choosing different personification of Mathematics such as the rising sun, tree root, the sun with planets and peacock with feathers. One contestant tried linking mathematics with the structure of chemical molecules. This contest served as a window to analyse the beliefs of future teachers about Mathematics as a subject.

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