Atitudes (des)favoráveis com relação à matemática

Abstract

The present work aims to study the occurrence, the type and the stability of the students from the teachers (of the first 4 grades of Grade School) and from the students in course of “Grade School Teaching” towards Mathematics. 295 students from the course of “Grade School Teaching” from public schools in Campinas and 203 “Grade School” teachers from public schools in the same city have been subject to this study. Considering the importance of the study of the attitudes towards Mathematics and the fact that an attitude represents a person’s predisposition to a certain object in favorable or an unfavorable way, we have opted for this kind of investigation, which is based on the fallowing hypotheses: a) Teacher’s and prospective teacher’s attitudes towards Mathematics tend to be negative; b) People choose the course of “Grade School Teaching” because they dislike Mathematics; c) The groups and subgroups have little difference regarding their attitudes towards Mathematics. The result obtained show that students have negative attitudes towards Mathematics and teachers positive; there is little alteration in the attitudes of more experience teachers and the option for the course of “Grade School Teaching” has shown to be a person’s predisposition to deal with childe.