An Exploratory Study of Hong Kong Mathematics Education of International Schools and Public Schools

Abstract

This study explored the difference in the belief on mathematics teaching between teachers of International and public schools; In particular, it considered the beliefs of middle school teachers with regard to mathematics. This study also soldiered the relationship between teachers ‘conceptions and students’ attitude of learning mathematics. It employed the mixed method and design to identify the three different types of questionnaires were designed for 19 teachers, and 107students from five different schools. All statistical analysis were implemented by an open-source package, R. Some characteristic features affecting on teachers’ belief, conceptions, and students’ attitude were observed. Hence, there is a sightly effective relationship between the students’ personality relate with the teachers’ belief.