Online Resources for Training Pre-service Primary School Teachers in Mathematics

Starting on the problem of the training of future primary school teachers whenever they use various online resources and other pedagogical software in teaching mathematics, the paper shows the results of an experiment carried out within the course of Mathematics Education I − in the master’s degree in Primary Teacher Education on the use of LearningApps. Specifically, the aim of this study was to familiarize students (future teachers) with LearninApp.org to create interactive modules to support Math teaching-learning in class or in their leisure time (e.g. lesson preparation, correction, homework, and fieldwork). The methodological approach chosen was non-linear to the topic of design to give depth and meaning to teaching practices. The underlying leitmotif was to consider design as ‘looking at the object’ from different points of view to connect them and draw operational indications. For this reason, the attention was focused on how to design a teaching practice using an ‘interactive module’ (app) the logical structure of which must orient and accompany the learner in the construction of mathematical meanings.