A Comparative Study of the Attitudes, Views, and Difficulties of Engineering and Business Students about the Function of Mathematics Courses at Tertiary Level

Engineering and business studies expertise is a key of sustaining a modern economy and to the advancement of civilization. Mathematics is a significant course which helps to understand the fundamentals of engineering and business principles. This study was an investigation about the attitude of business and engineering students towards Mathematics courses. The purpose of this study was to explore the relation between attitude and internal factors that effect on Mathematics studies. Furthermore, how Mathematics is useful in their professional life and how helpful advance technology to learn mathematics and made it interesting. A Survey was conducted to analyzing the attitude of engineering and business students towards Mathematics courses. The data was collected carefully according to the requirement. The research population in this study was engineering and business school students in Karachi-Pakistan. In this study attitude was measured in cognitive, affective and behavior domains for finding the factors that affect the learning of Mathematics among business and engineering students. Theories and related researches were used for making a questionnaire research tool. The finding of this research is helpful for improvement of Mathematics teaching and learning in both professions. In further, this study is also being beneficial for administration. The results of this studies shows that students attitude effect on their Mathematics learning, good mathematical skills made their professional journey easy and attitude of both gender also different towards Mathematics courses. The integration of technology also made teaching and learning interesting. Lastly, the mathematical skills are used in professional engineering field and the business world as per their need.