Primary School Pupils’ Perception On Mathematics In Context Of 21St Century Learning Activities And Skills
- DOI
- 10.2991/upiupsi-18.2019.26How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- 21st century; learning mathematics; pupils’ perception
- Abstract
The purpose of this study was to identify primary school pupils’ perceptions toward learning Mathematics in 21st century education setting. These perceptions are based on four aspects which consist of: i) mathematics as a subject; ii) 21st century learning activities; iii) 21st century skills in learning Mathematics which have been known as 4Cs (Communication, Collaboration, Creativity and Critical Thinking) and iv) pupils’ learning performance in Mathematics. The attempt to obtain information or feedback about pupils’ perception in learning Mathematics has become very necessary since teachers have to take great effort to understand the pupils’ needs and try to fulfil them. Teachers will get ideas what to improve in order to make sure learning mathematics in 21st century can achieve the best level. 88 samples were involved in this study consist of 30 of 8 years old pupils and 58 of 9 years old pupils and they were selected by applying purposive sampling. A quantitative research design was applied. A questionnaire consist of 20 items was conducted. According to the finding, the high grand mean for each aspect shows that pupils have positive views regarding Mathematics as a subject, highly interested with 21st century learning activities, admit to be able in mastering 21st century learning skills and highly agree they have improve in their learning.
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- © 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
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- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Norazlin Mohd Rusdin AU - Siti Rahaimah Ali AU - Md Nasir Masran PY - 2019/04 DA - 2019/04 TI - Primary School Pupils’ Perception On Mathematics In Context Of 21St Century Learning Activities And Skills BT - Proceedings of the 8th UPI-UPSI International Conference 2018 (UPI-UPSI 2018) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 148 EP - 154 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/upiupsi-18.2019.26 DO - 10.2991/upiupsi-18.2019.26 ID - MohdRusdin2019/04 ER -