The Attitudes of Students to the Geometry and Their Concepts about Square

Abstract

One of the reason that influences the studentś achievements at school is connected with their inner motivation. The attitudes of a students to the individual school subjects can be built or changed through the influence of the interaction with their own experiences. There are a lot of different factors, external or internal, but one of the main is the impact of a teachers at school. Geometry and geometrical thinking is strong connected with the educational process and according to Van Hiele (1999) is not age-dependent in the way of Piaget described development. In our investigation we focused to the students conceptions about a square in accordance with their ability to solve the tasks that are assigned to the different levels of geometrical thinking. We investigated also connectionsbetween their results in the pre-test and the post-test to their attitudes to the geometry. We used the attitude questionnaire and the typical geometrical tasks for the detection of the level of geometrical thinking according to van Hiele's theory. Our sample consists of pre-service teachers of pre-primary and primary education. For evaluating the results, the implicative analysis with statistical software C.H.I.C.(Classification Hiérarchique Implicative etCohésitiv) has been used.