Primary future teachers’ expectations towards development courses on mathematics teaching

The issue of what teachers need to teach mathematics effectively has been widely dealt with in the past decades; nevertheless, there are still few studies focusing on what future teachers think they need in order to be effective. In order to get a deeper understanding of future teachers’ viewpoints about what they need to learn, a narrative study concerning primary future teachers’ expectations on a course on Mathematics Teaching was developed. Issues about a lack of connections between theoretical notions provided by university courses and teaching practice were raised, as well as problems about affective dimension in mathematics learning and about mathematics itself