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This article documents the development of a questionnaire concerning pupils’ beliefs on teaching methods and mathematical worldviews. A representative poll leaded to some remarkable gender differences that are reported here as a first application of this questionnaire. These differences can be seen in more instructivist and less apply-oriented attitudes of the female group and more constructivist, process- and applied-oriented and less instructivist attitudes of the male group. Additionally, the constructivist and instructivist scales correlate positively only in the male group.
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Girnat, B. (2017). Gender Differences Concerning Pupils’ Beliefs on Teaching Methods and Mathematical Worldviews at Lower Secondary Schools. In: Andrà, C., Brunetto, D., Levenson, E., Liljedahl, P. (eds) Teaching and Learning in Maths Classrooms. Research in Mathematics Education. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-49232-2_24
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