TITLE:
Assessment of the Attitudes towards Mathematics of the Students for Teacher of Primary Education
AUTHORS:
María José Madrid, Carmen León-Mantero, Alexander Maz-Machado
KEYWORDS:
Attitudes, Mathematics, Teachers in Training, Primary Education Degree, Mathematics Education
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.2 No.11,
November
4,
2015
ABSTRACT: Attitudes of teachers in training towards mathematics may influence their
future professional performance. Therefore, in this work, it has been done an
exploratory study that aims to know which the attitudes towards mathematics of
students who are in their first year of the Primary Education degree from the
University of Cordoba at the beginning of their studies on this subject are.
The results of this research show that even though the students value
mathematics positively and they consider it useful and necessary to their
training, his subject also makes them feel anxiety and little liking. It also
shows differences in both anxiety and little liking between women and men.