Atitudes dos estudantes do ensino médio dos cursos técnicos em Agroecologia e Meio Ambiente do CTUR-UFRRJ em relação à matemática e às práticas docentes

Abstract

The objective of this research was to investigate the attitude of students towards teaching practices in mathematics. Research subjects were 228 students from the Agroecology and Environment technical program of Colégio Técnico da Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro. A numerical scale was used to measure the student’s attitude towards mathematics. A survey with open and closed questions was also distributed on different classes, to describe the students and to correlate description variables that could be associated with the students attitudes towards mathematics. Data were submitted to quantitative and qualitative analyses using content analysis module from IBM - SPSS version 20,0 software. A significant correlation was found between gender and attitude towards mathematics: male students seem to have a more positive attitude; students with better general performances also had more positive attitude towards math. Significant correlations between attitude and ‘relation with the teacher’ and between attitude and teaching methodology were also found. Sutdent age and grade was not correlated ti their attiute towards math. Second year students seemed to have a more positive attiute than the others.