Learning mathematics in Agroforestry Engineering freshmen students, I semester 2019

Abstract

This research analyzes the learning of mathematics in freshmen students of Agroforestry Engineering, for the learning analysis there were taken into account the indicators such as sex, age, ethnicity, marital status, employment status, number of children, weekly time to study mathematics, number of weekly consultations made to the teacher of the subject and qualification of a series of strategies related to learning. The research has a quantitative approach, since statistical techniques are applied to organize, represent data and make statistical summaries of the study variables, the scope is correlational, because of the relationship between the attitude towards mathematics and academic performance in the class. It also assesses the attitude towards the study of mathematics, first identifying the average attitude of each student, then the collective average attitude is calculated. To make a more exhaustive analysis, the attitude and the rating by gender were compared, in the end the mean attitude was correlated with the rating of the first partial evaluation.