中学对合格教师的需求很大，但对优质数学老师的需求更大，他们既关心学生和数学，又对数学有广泛而深刻的理解，和完全专业的老师。责任很大，但回报却更大。数学教学是挑战，责任和机遇。学习数学教学的方式多种多样：对各种数学的研究，数学范围内的教学准备，教育中的正式临床准备，扩展的实习以及作为学生，学习者和问题解决者的连续经验。
Mathematics reveals hidden patterns that help us understand the world around us. Now much more than arithmetic and geometry, mathematics today is a diverse discipline that deals with data, measurements, and observations from science, with inference, deduction, and proof, and with mathematical models of natural phenomena, of human behavior, and of social systems. <br><br>As a practical matter, Mathematics is a science of pattern and order. Its domain is not molecules or cells, but numbers, chance, form, algorithms, and change. As a science of abstract objects, Mathematics relies on logic rather than on observation as its standard of truth, yet employs observation, simulation, and even experimentation as means of discovering truth. From: Everybody Counts: A Report to the Nation on the Future of Mathematics Education (c) 1989 National Academy of Sciences.<br><br>Teaching Mathematics is a challenge, a responsibility, and an opportunity. Learning to teach Mathematics occurs through a variety of means: the study of a wide variety of Mathematics, pedagogical preparation within a mathematical context, formal clinical preparation in education, an extended internship, and continual experiences as a student, learner, and problem solver in Mathematics.