PREFERENCE LEARNING STYLE IN MATHEMATICS: STUDENTS PERCEPTION

Year 2015, Volume: 2 , 74 - 80, 01.09.2015

Sadri Alija Halil Snopçe

Abstract

Teaching
is an ability of complex recognition which is not inborn, but it is a process
which can be learned and improved during time. This is the reason why we always
try to improve and develop our ability in offering the best qualitative
teaching methods to students in our universities.

 

The
aim of this research is to analyze some different aspects of student’s
preferences in learning mathematics, especially to analyze the preferences
concerning the teaching style used by the teacher in the classroom.

In
this paper we show the results obtained from a survey realized during the fall
semester of 2014 - 2015 with students of two different faculties of the
SEE-University, students from the Faculty of Contemporary Sciences and
Technologies and Faculty of Business Economics.

 

The
results obtained by this survey show that the method favored by the students is
the non-traditional one with preference of 60.5%. In order to analyze student’s
preferences over different teaching methods versus some other factors, we have
used cross tabulation. The results obtained in this paper show that the
preferences of the female students, students with the GPA now between 7 and 8,
students with MATH score in last semester with 6 (Satisfactory)  tend in preference towards non-traditional
methods.

 

Taking
into consideration the nature of the subject of mathematics, the obtained
results suggest that the teacher should increase his engagement in the subject
using different practices and methods in the classroom in order to enhance the
interest of the students for the subject.

Keywords

mathematics, learning preferences, traditional, nontraditional

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