Chapter 11: Preparing Secondary Prospective Teachers to Teach Mathematics with Technology

The Association of Mathematics Teacher Educators’ (2017)Standards for Preparing Teachers of Mathematics (SPTM) has set aspirational goals for the preparation of well-prepared beginning teachers of mathematics that includes teaching with mathematics action technologies. These standards require that beginning teachers of mathematics not only be proficient users of technologies, but also understand how to use technology in meaningful ways to support students’ thinking. In this chapter we describe where we are as a field with respect to meeting the goals of the SPTM related to teaching with technology. With problems of practice and theory related to the work of MTEs in preparing secondary mathematics teachers to teach mathematics with technology as a guidepost, we lay out foundational work in this area (the past), followed by the current efforts by three projects to address the practical and theoretical challenges MTEs are facing. Finally, we describe our vision for the work that is needed down the road for us to make headway towards meeting the aspirational goals laid out in the AMTE SPTM.