The Primary Teacher Education (PrimTEd) project was established in response to concerns about the pre-service preparation of primary teachers in South Africa. In order to inform the development of appropriate pre-service mathematics courses, an initial need in the PrimTEd project was to establish the nature of the mathematical knowledge of pre-service teachers both near the start and also near the end of their studies, through an online assessment. This paper describes the design of this PrimTEd online mathematics test and reports on the performance on the test of first-year and fourth-year primary mathematics student teachers, at three different universities. The overall performance of students together with the small differences between first and fourth year student performance indicate a need for student teachers to revisit primary school mathematics in a way that provides a deep understanding of key mathematical concepts in order to be better prepared for future teaching careers.

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职前小学教师的数学内容知识：探索性研究

出于对南非小学教师的职前准备的关注，设立了小学教师教育（PrimTEd）项目。为了通知适当的职前数学课程的发展，PrimTEd项目的最初需求是通过学习的开始和结束时来确定职前教师数学知识的性质。在线评估。本文介绍了此PrimTEd在线数学测试的设计，并报告了三所不同大学的一年级和四年级小学数学学生教师的测试表现。