TY - BOOK AU - Bayaga,Anass AU - Wadesango,Newman AU - Wadesango,Ongayi Vongai TI - Impact of teacher's beliefs on mathematics education SN - 18146627 AV - L81.A33 AFR PY - 2015/// CY - Pretoria PB - Unisa Press and Routledge KW - Mathematics education KW - Instructional practices KW - Motivation theory KW - Mathematics belief and motivation KW - South Africa N2 - The objective of the current study was to analyze the impact of teachers’ personal theory and beliefs (PTB) towards Mathematics teaching. A total of 183 respondents were involved in this study, using the stratified random sampling method with Cronbach's alpha of 0.87. Due to the objective of the research and the hypothesis, it was positioned within the positivist paradigm following a survey design, concentrating on Bachelor of Education and Postgraduate Certificate Education students, with a quantitative approach. The instrument of data collection was a structured questionnaire schedule. All selected respondents (using a questionnaire) were students of University of Fort Hare, enrolled in either the Bachelor of Education (BEd) or Postgraduate Certificate of Education (PGCE) programme. Using analysis of variance (ANOVA), the results revealed that there was no significant effect of age and race on learning of Mathematics amongst BEds and PGCEs candidates UR - https://doi.org/10.1080/18146627.2015.1108008 ER -