Open-access Study on the beliefs of mathematics, its teaching and learning in secondary teachers in Colombia

Abstract

Studying teachers' beliefs is important because they are constructs that influence teaching practice and evaluating them allows us to understand how they can be improved. The objective was to identify beliefs about mathematics, its teaching and learning, and to analyze the relationship between the three variables involved. A quantitative methodological design with non-probabilistic convenience sampling was used. The instrument was applied to 199 mathematics teachers and obtained a Cronbach's alpha of 0.803. The results indicated that teachers tend to have platonist (less adequate) and problem-solving (more adequate) beliefs and that there is a moderate association between the three variables evaluated, which could indicate that there is a coherence between teachers' beliefs both in what they know about mathematics and in its teaching and learning.

Keywords:
beliefs; mathematics; teaching; learning; teacher

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Instituto Superior de Formación Docente Salomé Ureña
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