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Article
High School Students’ Attitude Towards Their Learning Geometry
Author(s)
Yea-Ling Tsao
Wei-Shin Tung
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DOI:10.17265/2161-623X/2022.03.001
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Minnesota State University, Mankato, USA
New Taipei Municipal Hai-Shan High School, New Taipei, Taiwan
ABSTRACT
The study explores secondary school students’ attitude towards learning geometry. In this current study, the researchers adopted quantitative and descriptive survey methods. A total of 138 high school freshmen from Xinchuang School District in New Taipei City, Taiwan voluntarily participated in the study. The research was done qualitatively by using a questionnaire that comprised of 32 Likert-type questions which were adopted from Utley Geometry Attitude Scales. This study explores high school students’ attitudes toward their learning of geometry and investigates the difference in attitude of students towards learning geometry by gender. 138 secondary students were administered with a questionnaire to find out their attitudes towards geometry. The students answered questions regarding their personal confidence in learning geometry, enjoyment in studying geometry and perceived usefulness of learning geometry. The results show that the high school students’ attitude towards geometry is slightly negative below medium. However, the high school students’ attitudes toward the usefulness of geometry are slightly positive and many of them believe that geometry is a valuable and necessary topic which could help them in their future careers and education. The study reveals that there exist significant differences in attitude towards confidence in learning geometry between male-female students.
KEYWORDS
attitudes, geometry, high school students, learning
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