Problems of teaching mathematics at the university level – An Analytical Study

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Introduction: 
         The university level is one of the most important levels that determine the fate of learners, the end of the education stage, starting work, learning about ways and methods of earning, and joining jobs that enable them to live safely and face the demands of life. It also adds to the learner's opportunities for personal growth and academic learning, and it is also like any stage that a person goes through, as he faces... The student has some challenges and difficulties that put him outside his comfort zone and the routine he is accustomed to, and may create a state of confusion and psychological pressure for him. The student enters the university stage carrying many new challenges: a different kind of study, new friends, a different nature of learning, hopes, ambitions, visions, and perceptions that do not necessarily match reality, and all of this constitutes challenges and difficulties for them.                                  
         Modern trends in education have emphasized the role of the learner as the focus of the educational process and a main source for producing ideas and processing information, and employing unfamiliar ideas to generate new familiar ideas that contribute to providing successful solutions to contemporary problems, to achieve actual development in the learning process, These efforts have resulted in more effective teaching methods, more sensitive to students’ needs, inclinations and trends. (Jaber, 2004, p. 19)[1]
This stage is considered a major shift in their lives, given the importance this stage holds in building the learner’s personality and developing the level of thinking and culture. Despite the importance of the university stage in students’ lives, they face many difficulties during it, and he shows that the problems lie In many forms, including economic, social, and personal, those related to the student or professor, and those related to the scientific subject, these challenges may result from the loss of communication with friends and classmates in the secondary stage, which the student has become accustomed to for a while. Also, the university environment is a somewhat open environment compared to the school environment, especially single-sex schools, which gives greater freedom and multiple options and attendance is Absence is at a certain rate, and the psychological factor has an important role before the student enters the university stage, At the forefront is the shock of entering the university and getting to know the university community, the way of dealing at the university, as well as the method of study, as it is completely different from the stage of school education in which the student spends approximately 12 years studying, which makes him accustomed to the routine and monotonous methods of the educational and pedagogical process At that stage (Zafar, 2020, p. 16)
Therefore, countries must pay great attention to the university or academic education level, seek to develop educational curricula under the requirements of the labor market, rely on effective teaching methods, seek to modify the educational policies they follow, improve the selection of teachers, and seek to train them well to raise their efficiency and develop their abilities, and this is one of the ways To advance the intellectual and cultural level and develop the minds of students because if it succeeds in developing the minds of students, this will later help them achieve development in various economic, social and other fields
 
[1] The American Psychological Association's sixth edition (American Psychological ED) documentation system was used (last name, year, page), where the first digit in the reference refers to the Gregorian year, the second digit refers to page numbers, and foreign names by last name, and are arranged in the bibliography at This is the case, as for the Arabic names, they were documented in the text of the research by the last name only, and they were arranged in the complete list of references from first to last.