Factors that promote positive attitudes towards mathematics in higher education students
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2020
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Orozco-Guzmán, M.
Villanueva-Cantillo, J.
Mejía Acuña, F.
Obredor Castro, S
Silvera Malo, E.
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IOP Publishing
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The purpose of this review article is to explain the importance of understanding
attitudes towards teaching and learning mathematics in higher education students. For that, we
start from the premise that attitudes are related to performance towards learning mathematics,
bearing in mind that what directly influences their success are the feelings of possessing
competencies to understand their contents and not the feelings of difficulty towards them. In
essence, at first, we describe the different attitudes towards mathematics. Next, we examine how
attitudes influence math learning and finally identify the factors that foster positive attitudes
toward math. From this, we suggest teaching practices that can be carried out to foster positive
attitudes towards mathematics and propose new lines of research in this field.