...Ziting Wei; Hanwen Zuo; Tommy Tanu Wijaya; Yi Wang Purpose This study investigates Beijing middle school students' mathematical dispositions through metaphors, aiming to reveal emotional, cognitive, conative, and functional aspects of their dispositions, as well as how these are shaped within...

.... Design/methodology/approach Thirty-one participants completed three structured metaphor tasks and one open-ended metaphor task in which they shared their views on mathematics. Responses were examined qualitatively and quantitatively. Coding based on thematic analysis was utilized to summarize...