Images Of Mathematics: Management Students’ Perception
Imej Matematik dalam kalangan Pelajar Pengurusan
Keywords:
Images, nature, feelings, disseminateAbstract
Every person gives different perspective on mathematics. Perspective comes from
feelings. Fascination, love, boring, hate are several colours of feelings. We can express
our feelings by drawing an image. Images can evoke powerful imagery that helps us
interpret and disseminate knowledge by exchanging information and perspectives.
Images of mathematics are important elements for knowing about students’ knowledge
on mathematics and mathematics learning. Every student has different background of
education which is shaped by different experiences throughout their lives especially
when studying mathematics. Hence, this paper discusses the general views of images
of mathematics held by students of the Management Bachelor Program at a higher
education institution. Eighty students from the third semester were selected in this
study. Data were collected qualitatively and analysed quantitatively through images
which are drawn by student based on the theme of ‘Mathematics and I’, related to the
students’ views of the nature of mathematics.
Kita perlu mengetahui bagaimana pelajar mempelajari matematik. Pandangan
mereka terhadap matematik melalui imej matematik perlu diteroka dan dianalisis bagi
menyumbang kepada jawapan-jawapan ini. Pengetahuan tentang matematik diperoleh
daripada pelbagai aktiviti yang dijalankan dan pengalaman yang telah dilalui dalam
kehidupan. Matematik dipelajari sejak dari zaman pra sekolah sehinggalah ke tahap
universiti. Pendidikan matematik yang dilalui oleh sesetengah pelajar adalah
peringkat asas seperti matrikulasi dan asasi yang ditawarkan oleh hampir semua
institusi pengajian tinggi di seluruh Malaysia. Program yang menyediakan pelajar
untuk program peringkat ijazah pertama ini memberikan pengetahuan asas pelajar
tentang matematik dan perkaitannya dengan pengurusan dan ekonomi yang bakal
menjadi bidang pilihan mereka selepas ini. Oleh itu kertas kerja ini dihasilkan bagi
membincangkan pandangan umum tentang matematik melalui imej matematik yang
dilukis oleh pelajar program asasi di sebuah institusi pengajian tinggi di Selangor.
Empat puluh dua orang pelajar daripada sembilan puluh orang pelajar keseluruhan
yang mendaftar pada semester kedua pengajian bagi program tersebut dipilih.
Pengumpulan data adalah melibatkan soal selidik terbuka yang memerlukan pelajar
ini melukis imej yang mewakili pandangan mereka terhadap matematik dan
pembelajaran matematik. Imej matematik dan kaitannya dengan pengalaman
pembelajaran matematik yang dilalui sebelum ini dibincangkan secara mendalam
berserta nilai yang wujud dalam pendidikan matematik.
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