معتقدات الطلبة المعلمين تخصص الرياضيات في جامعة الأقصى حول الرياضيات

Abstract EN

This research aimed at exploring the beliefs of mathematics student teachers in the faculty of education in Al-Aqsa university about mathematics, and find the correlation between these beliefs and their instructional performance.

For this purpose the researcher prepared mathematics beliefs questionnaire which consists of 46 items, and it is distributed on three dimensions.

The dimensions include the beliefs about the nature of mathematics, learning and teaching mathematics.

The Sample consists of 87 student teachers.

The results showed that 56.3% of the sample appear to hold instrumentalist view about mathematics, 62.1% of the sample appear to hold the experimental and physical view of mathematics, 54% of the sample appear to hold the Platonist view of mathematics, 68.2% of the sample appear to hold the dynamic and social view of mathematics.

And 93.1% of the sample believe the participation learning, 83.9% of the sample believe in the educational values of mathematics, 56.3% of sample believe in self-confidence in learning mathematics.

All of student teachers believe in constructive view of teaching mathematics.

Also, the result showed that there is not correlation between the beliefs about mathematics and the instructional performance.