Actitudes hacia el Cálculo Diferencial e Integral: Caracterización de Estudiantes Mexicanos del Nivel Medio Superior

Abstract This article presents the results of a study with students from the Salvador Allende High School of the Autonomous University of Queretaro, Mexico. The goal of the research was to identify and characterize the attitudes of students towards the differential and integral Calculus. We used as theoretical reference the Theory of Attitudes (Mann, 1981). The methodology applied was mixed and a Likert questionnaire –alpha 0.807– was applied as data collection instrument to 149 students and a semi-structured interview to 28 students. The findings show a high degree of student rejection to...