Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies, Online ISSN 2278-8808, SJIF 2021 = 7.380, www.srjis.com PEER REVIEWED & REFEREED JOURNAL, SEPT-OCT, 2022, VOL- 10/73 TEACHERS’ AWARENESS OF MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS IN DAILY LIFE Bondu Raju, Ph. D. Assistant Professor, MANUU College of Teacher Education, Bidar-Karnataka.
Paper Received On: 25 OCTOBER 2022 Peer Reviewed On: 31 OCTOBER 2022 Published On: 01 NOVEMBER 2022
Abstract The goal of this research was to look into the current state of Secondary level Mathematics teachers’ awareness of the use of mathematics in daily life in the State of Telangana. In this present study the investigator identified the awareness in use of mathematics in daily life is in eight areas such as Mathematics awareness in Environment, Science and Technology, Agriculture, Art and Culture, Sports, Weather Forecasting, Industry. The researcher used a mailed questionnaire to collect data for his research for Secondary level Mathematics teachers’ awareness in use of mathematics in daily life in selected areas. The study revealed that secondary level mathematics teachers have good awareness in use of mathematics in daily life. Over 80 percent of Secondary level Mathematics teachers’ in this study were using daily life situations to understand the concepts and gain the fundamental knowledge of other subjects such as Environment, Science and Technology, Agriculture, Art and Culture, Sports, Weather Forecasting, Industry among the students. Key terms: Awareness; Daily life; Mathematics; Secondary level; Mathematics teachers
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Introduction Mathematics is an important subject in overall school curriculum. It has always occupied
an important place throughout the school stage due to its plays a main role in developing civilization. Mathematics is an independent discipline and it has its own language and structure. Besides these, it has a lot of applications in other subjects. Since the last four decades, there has been an explosion of knowledge all over the world with rapid development in almost all fields such as science and technology, Agriculture, Art and Culture, Sports, Industry etc. Due to above reasons, the Kothari Commission (NCERT, 1966) emphasized the importance of Copyright © 2022, Scholarly Research Journal for Interdisciplinary Studies