1999 Volume 4 Number 1
TERTIARY AND JUNIOR COLLEGE STUDENTS’
ATTITUDE TOWARDS MATHEMATICS’
Lim-Teo Suat Khoh
Ahuja Om P.
Lee Peng Yee
Abstract: A research project entitled “Calculus Education at Junior College and
Tertiary Levels I Singapore” was begun in 1996 to study the current status of
teaching and learning of calculus in Singapore. As part of the Junior College and Tertiary
students’ attitude towards mathematics in general and towards calculus in particular.
This paper reports the findings of the part of the survey dealing with
student attitude towards mathematics. In general tertiary and junior college
students who do Mathematics have a positive attitude towards mathematics in that
very few of them have mathematics anxiety and majority enjoy mathematics.
However. Some of the findings of the students’ view of mathematics and their
approaches to learning mathematics give cause for concern.