Course Topics

 How Do Math Teachers in the

Philippines Fare?
 Mental mathematics
 Enrolment in Math Education degrees
 Communication Skills of Math teachers
 Course Topics
 Performance of Philippine students in the international
standardized exams in math and the sciences (among the
lowest in the world)
 Equity issues (how teachers and resources are
distributed among schools)
 Course Topics
 Teacher training development programs (how long ago
do math teachers have taken a college course in math)
 Homework practices and issues
 New Methods of Doing Math (i.e., Lattice
multiplication, etc.)
How Do Math Teachers in
the Philippines Fare?
Source:
https://www.philippinesbasiceducation.us/2017/06/how-do-
math-teachers-in-philippines-fare.html
How Do Math Teachers in the Philippines
Fare?
Students in the Philippines have not been
participating in international standardized exams for
over a decade now. In 2003, fourth grade students in
the Philippines ranked 23rd out of 25 countries and
in 2008, during which only students from science
high schools participated, the Philippines ranked last
among ten countries participating.
How Do Math Teachers in the Philippines
Fare?
Teachers in primary and secondary schools in the
Philippines also partook in the Teacher Education
and Development Study in Mathematics (TEDS-
M). The results of this study have been recently
analyzed and in terms of quality assurance, teacher
education in the Philippines does not fare well. In
terms of both content and pedagogical knowledge,
math teachers in the Philippines are near the
bottom.
 Quality assurance in teacher education includes:
 Recruitment and Selection
 Accreditation of Programs
 Entry to Profession
 The 3 measures are found to correlate strongly with
scores obtained by the teachers on tests that measure
their knowledge in mathematics. With regard to content,
teachers in the Philippines obtained a low score
compared to teachers in other countries.
Not only do teachers in the
Philippines perform poorly in
math knowledge exams, they also
score low in tests that measure
how well they can teach math.
Suggestion to Solve Philippines' Basic
Education Problems
by Flor Lacanilao
 Studies on education abroad have shown that the best
way to improve basic education is to improve first higher
education. And the best way to improve both is to put
only the right people in charge.
 Right people refers to those who have made major
contribution to one’s field, as shown by properly
published research works (that is, following
internationally accepted criteria).
 At present, none of those in charge in higher and basic
education has such minimum requirement.
 For basic education, the above prerequisite will insure
that (a) program components are based on tested studies
abroad, (b) curricular changes are based on properly
published studies of local problems, and (c) they have
undergone trial runs or verification at selected schools
before nationwide implementation.