The Analysis of the First Year High School Teachers' Viewpoint on Mathematical Anxiety, Reasons and Resolving Methods
Journal Title: Scholars Journal of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences - Year 2015, Vol 3, Issue 1
Abstract
The purpose of this study is to analyze the mathematical anxiety of students and teachers viewpoint on the causes of mathematical anxiety in students. The population of this study was the Zabol city first year high-school students and their teachers among who 150 students and 30 teachers were selected as the research samples by the cluster method. The research tools are the mathematical anxiety questionnaire and the questionnaire provided the researcher to measure teachers, viewpoint. The data analysis was performed by the SPSS software, using the descriptive and inferential stats (independent T-test for student, Pearson correlation, ANOVA). The results showed that most students have moderate anxiety. And anxiety between boys and girls differs at 1% significance. The findings showed that the GPA is negatively and significantly correlated with anxiety at 1% level. The results indicated that according to the teachers mathematics is the factor that is mainly responsible for the anxiety among the students. The lack of teaching mathematics through a scientific and applicative method, lack of attention to the requirements of the learner, and the methods of teaching mathematics had the greatest effect on the field of education in creating mathematical anxiety among students. Keywords: mathematical anxiety; teachers’ viewpoint; teaching..
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Somayeh Panjekoobi, Ali Payan
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