Motivation for learning mathematics in high school students

Abstract

The objective of this bibliographic review work, is to explore the theoretical methodological references that sustain the development of motivation for learning and in particular mathematics in the General Unified High School. A bibliographic review was carried out, using search engines such as Google Scholar, Dialnet, and Redalyc, 20 scientific publications were critically analyzed on the topic in the region in general and in Ecuador in particular. In correspondence with the problem and the objectives of the study, the methodology used was based on a qualitative research with interpretive approach, using the document analysis as systematization technique in the study of bibliographical sources, linked in particular with the motivation development for learning mathematics. Methods of theoretical and empirical level and the systemic approach were used to interpret the results to reveal the main characteristics of the motivation and the conceptions for their development in the process of learning  the mathematics, at this educational level. As a result the main theoretical-methodological relations were obtained theoretical-methodological relations that allow sustaining the development of the motivation in first-year students of General Unified High School.