The aim of this study was to verify whether there are significant differences between the profiles of the mean score students from a sample of three universities, regarding attitude toward the statistics' course and attitude toward the statistical field. The universities were:

RESUMENEl objetivo del estudio se centra en determinar el nivel de actitud hacia las matemáticas por parte de los estudiantes de la Facultad de Economía de la Universidad Autónoma de San Luis Potosí (UASLP). El estudio se aborda desde el paradigma cuantitativo, no experimental, transversal y exploratorio. La muestra está conformada por estudiantes de la Licenciatura en Economía que tomaron cursos de matemáticas en el año 2105. Se utilizó el cuestionario de actitud hacia la estadística de Auzmendi (1992). El principal hallazgo empírico de la percepción de los alumnos fue que el agrado es uno de los factores que más contribuye en la actitud hacia las matemáticas, contrario a la motivación, la cual se demostró que no es un elemento clave de la actitud hacia esta disciplina.

Regardless of the social or economic status of a student, it is a fact that math is always present. This discipline is considered as a competitive tool for achieving a more productive life. However, the gap in academic achievement is big. Consequently, in the last decades the research on education has set attention on this point. Therefore, this research aims to prove that there is anxiety toward math on high school students at a private institution Rioverde in San Luis Potosí, México and find if there is a difference in regards to gender. We used Auzmendi sub-scale questionnaire. The results show that there is anxiety toward math on high school students, and that women show more anxiety toward math than men do. Thus, we conclude, for the case under study, that anxiety toward math is a learning issue for high school students, more often for women than for men.

The aim of this study was to determine the variables that explain the anxiety towards mathematics in college students. For this purpose, we used the scale RMARS that integrate 25 items. The sample is non-probabilistic by convenience and the questionnaire was applied to 100 student's enrollment in the Instituto Tecnológico de Veracruz (ITVER). Exploratory factorial analysis with component extraction was used for data measurement. The internal consistency of the test was α=0.911. The Bartlett's test of Sphericity with KMO (0.857), chi-square test X 2 with 276 df (1404.084) and significance p < 0.000 as well as the values of MSA tending to 1, show a significant result that allow us reject null hypothesis Ho. The percentage of the 65.62% variance is explained by five components. The result shows that anxiety in the ITVER students is explained by a five factors model and not by the tridimensional model as stated by Richardson y Suinn.

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