PRESERVICE TEACHERS AND THE LEARNING OF GEOMETRY

The purpose of this paper is to share some ideas about an experience in teacher training. An issue that mathematics educators need to face is how to adequately work methodologies in different mathematical subjects to answer the needs of preservice teachers. Often they have little mathematical knowledge and reveal negative attitudes towards mathematics learning. In the discipline of Geometry we use a dynamic geometry application (DGA) and pattern tasks to work on geometrical concepts, to motivate preservice teachers to learn geometry and to encourage them to try to change their attitudes towards geometry.