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The main questions asked were:
- Is there a relationship between teaching quality and attitude
of high school students towards mathematics?
- What are some major stereotyping of mathematicians that
students have?
- Which fields do students think require mathematics?
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These questions are answered effectively via graphical analysis methods. Further analysis is not possible, unfortunately, due to the way the data were tallied, and due to the design of the survey.
Results
The survey shows that, for this particular sample of students chosen:
There is a strong relationship between teaching quality and
attitude of students towards mathematics.

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In particular, students who think mathematics was well-taught in their
school and tend to like mathematics, think that it is interesting,
and think that it is for everyone.


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Stereotyping: 32% of students surveyed think that mathematics is for geniuses only. 33% think that mathematicians are not sociable people.
That is, one in every three students surveyed
think that mathematicians are geniuses
and cannot socialize.
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Applications: more than 60% of students surveyed believe that mathematics is important for engineering, science, and medicine, but less than 5% believe that mathematics is needed in law and psychology.
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