Semantic-profiles for concept "mathematics" of students in senior high schools
1978 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 1-5
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1978 Volume 3 Issue 1 Pages 1-5
In the present paper, we use the McCallon-Brown Semantic Differential (SD) Scale (1971). Ss are student 5 senior high schools in Aomori Pref. and Iwatc Pref. in Japan. By 3 way ANOVA, we find that all the variables, 'scale', 'sex' and 'seat' of the school, arc significant and that the variable 'scale' is independent from two other variables. Also we find that there are two patterns in SD profiles for concept "mathematics", i. e., type I and type II. The pattern named type I is showed by literary studonts and the pattern named type II by scientific and mathematical students. Implications of these semantic pro- files to teaching mathematics and improvement of attitude toward mathematics are discussed.
