Objective: This study was conducted to investigate the effects of early childhood
teachers’teaching beliefs, mathematics teaching efficacy, and pedagogical content
knowledge of mathematics on their teaching intention of mathematics.
Methods: A total of 266 early child teachers in Busan participated in this study.
They completed a set of question naires which consisted of questions about
teaching beliefs, mathematics teaching efficacy, pedagogical content knowledge
of mathematics, and the teaching intention of mathematics. The collected data
were analyzed using the SPSS program.
Results: First, we observed several positive correlations among the four
variables. Second, we found that early childhood teachers’constructive teaching
beliefs, mathematics teaching efficacy, and pedagogical content knowledge of
mathematics had effects on their teaching intention of mathematics. The
knowledge about teaching-learning methods for mathematics among the
subcategories of pedagogical content knowledge of mathematics was observed as
the strongest predictor for the teachers’ teaching intention.
Conclusion :We need to take more interest in the pedagogical knowledge about
teaching-learning methods of mathematics in teacher training courses in order to
enhance teachers’teaching intention of mathematics. As a result, this will makea
contribution to high quality math education for young children.