Abstract
This paper aimed at investigating the impacts of some cultural, social and economic factors of the students’ families on the students’ education and attitude toward mathematics. This study has been carried out through the use of data envelopment analysis. Data envelopment analysis is a linear programming method that its main purpose is to compare and evaluate the efficiency of a number of similar decision-making units, and to compare and analyze them, which have different values of consumed inputs and produced outputs. In this study, the inputs are the various aspects of cultural, social and economic conditions (such as family income, physical and mental health condition of the family members, and parents’ occupation) of the families of 300 sixth-grade elementary school students in district 4 of Tehran, and the outputs are the extent of achievement in the mathematics test and the interest of the students of the mentioned schools to the activities related to the mathematics course and moral discipline. After the completion of the investigations, the effective and ineffective units were identified and the results were completely interpreted.
Highlights
Education should enable us to respond to the opportunities and challenges we face as quickly as the change in the world in which we live and work
95% of the students of school 1, 87% of the students of school 2% and 57% of the students of school 3 are efficient
The findings of this study indicated the direct impact of various aspects of the economic, cultural, social and physical and mental health condition of the students’ families on the efficiency of their schools
Summary
Education should enable us to respond to the opportunities and challenges we face as quickly as the change in the world in which we live and work. These changes involve some parts of school curriculum. The most important role of mathematics is the development of thinking. The general goal of mathematics teaching is to develop good mental habits in every student so that they can handle every type of problem as much as possible. Mathematics education is relevant to the completion and implementation of an appropriate curriculum, as well as issues and topics related to teaching and learning mathematics
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