Abstract:
It sounds contradictory when students who are being trained to teach go to the field
and end up performing quite below standard despite all efforts put in place by the university to
produce effective and productive teachers. The issue been raised is, what then becomes the fate of
the students they are teaching in terms of performance? It is in this view that the current research
was conducted to examine the challenges faced by mathematics education students during macroteaching.
To achieve the objective of the study, a descriptive survey design was employed for the
study. A sample size of 35 final year students offering Bachelor of Education (Mathematics)
programme were selected using the simple random sampling technique. Questionnaires were used
as the main instruments for data collection during the research process. Results from the study
indicated that student-teachers encounter environmental, instructional and supervisory
challenges. Environment challenges faced by these students include inadequate teaching and
learning mathematics and difficulty in transport to the schools. Other challenges encountered,
conclusions, recommendations as well as the implications of the findings are discussed in the
work.
