Atribuciones de la motivación al logro y sus implicaciones en la formación del pensamiento lógico-matemático en la Universidad

the purpose of this study was to analyze some of the attributions of the motivation for achievement in mathematics, referred to performance shown by university students in diverse aspects of quantitative reasoning. the research modality was non-experimental with an ex-post facto design. a sample of 92 beginning students out of a population of 1800 enrolled in the course mathematics i in semester i-2008 was chosen intentionally at the economic and social sciences college, university of carabobo, venezuela. the results indicate that some atribucional causes of motivation affect the logical-numerical potential and contribute to students performance in some dimensions of the mathematical thought.