The Need for an Inclusive Framework for Students' Thinking in School Geometry (original) (raw)

Exploring grade 12 mathematics students’ characteristics and views they hold about geometry

African Educational Research Journal, 2017

The purpose of this study was to explore selected mathematics students’ characteristics and relate these to views students hold about geometry. The mathematics students’ characteristics that the researchers focused on, related to: their gender, age, the parents they stayed with, the percentage mark they expected in an upcoming test and final year examination, whether they attended extra-classroom geometry tutorials and how frequent, whether they intended to study further, as well as which careers they wished to follow. These different characteristics were selected based on literature readings relating to, for instance, students’ choice of career, including differences between males and females in career choice. The question pose in this study was: What were mathematics students’ characteristics and views about geometry? In order to answer this question the quantitative research design was used. Data was collected using Johnson modified version questionnaire. Participants were 231 gr...