The paper presents an empirical study done in Indian classrooms to understand the effect of mathematics learning experiences on the development of mathematics creativity. The study was designed in two stages, at stage I, it was planned to find out scope, practice and promotion of creative thinking in mathematics classroom; teachers’ own engagements with creative mathematical task and teachers’ ...

Mathematics games are widely employed in school classrooms for such reasons as a reward for early finishers or to enhance students’ attitude towards mathematics. During a four week period, a total of 222 Grade 5 and 6 (9 to 12 years old) children from Melbourne, Australia, were taught multiplication and division of decimal numbers using calculator games or rich mathematical activities. Likert s...

This study aims to examine whether there is a relationship between abstract thinking skills, self-efficacy perceptions and attitude towards mathematics how these variables predict achievement. The was conducted with 198 eighth-grade students who were selected by random sampling the relational screening model used. For data collection, tools of “Abstract Thinking Test in Mathematics”, “Self-Effi...

To supplement the traditional teaching , in the last few years a steady growth of ICT applications and IT courseware development has taken place in India. Only a few studies have evaluated acceptance of such new technologies among teachers. An attempt is made to understand the attitude of mathematics teachers towards IT as an instructional tool in the State Schools of Kerala (India) , using the...

Given the importance of beliefs and attitudes pre-service teachers, this research aims at studying relation between mathematics teaching efficacy their attitude towards academic achievement. Specifically, work considers both factors together studies correlation with The Mathematics Teaching Efficacy Belief Instrument (MTEBI) is used to measure teachers’ teachers. Besides, Attitude Scale (AMS) r...

the aim of the current study is to investigate the role of organizational anomie concerning the existing relationship between university faculty member’s attitude towards oneself, managers, co-workers and students with organizational citizenship behaviors. population of the study includes isfahan university faculty members from which 387 members (160 female and 227 male) were chosen randomly. r...

Numerous research findings have applauded the integration of technology in classroom especially mathematic to develops positive attitudes. The advancements may provide a better opportunity impact mathematical literacy and skills on young learners. Perhaps, attitudes towards mathematics are declining recent years. study aimed enhance students attitude toward learning by using games app embedded ...

The issue of the application of mathematics to natural science has received a great deal of consideration in the last few years (see, for instance, Field [1980] and [1989], Hellman [1989], Steiner [1989] and [1998], and Shapiro [1997]). In this paper, I am concerned with two tasks: (1) to provide a formal framework to accommodate one important aspect of this issue − the heuristic use of mathema...