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Atitudes (des) favoraveis com relação a matemática
(1996) GONÇALES, Maria Helena C. de Castro; BRITO, Marcia Regina Ferreira de
The present work aims to study the occurrence, the type and the stability of the attitudes from the teachers(of the first 4 grades of Grade School) and from the students in course of "Grade School Teaching" toward Mathematics. 295 students from course of "Grade School Teaching" from public school in Campinas and 203 "Grade School'teacher from public school in the same city hava been subject to this study. Considering the importance of study of the attitues towards Mathematics and the fact that an attitude represens a person's predisposition to a certain object in favorable or an unfavorable way, we have opted for this kind of investigation, whith is based on the fallowing hypotheses: a) Teacher's and prospective teachers' attitude toward Mathematics tend to be negative; b) People choose the course of "Grade School Teaching" because they dislike Mathematics; c) The groups and subgroups have litle difference regarding their attitudes towards Mathematics. The results obtained show that students have negative attitudes towards mathematics and teachers positive; there is litle alteration in the attitudess of more experience teachers and teh opinion for the course of "Grade School Teaching" has shown to be a person's predisposition to deal with children