An Investigation About 6th Grade Students’ Attitudes Towards Mathematics

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to investigate 6 th students' attitudes towards mathematics, the gender effect on attitude and the relationship between attitude and achievement. The data were collected from 120 6 th grade students. Participants were assigned to complete mathematics attitude scale which is developed by Aşkar (1986). In addition students were grouped as low, medium and high achiever with respect to their grades. Students' attitude scores were computed, descriptive statistics were examined and scores were compared with respect to achievement and gender. The results indicated that students have relatively positive attitudes towards mathematics. The difference between high and low achiever students' attitude scores is significant. Hence there is a relationship between attitude and achievement. On the other hand no gender difference was found in this study.

Sikap dan Kesediaan Pelajar Tingkatan Empat Terhadap Perlaksanaan Kemahiran Berfikir Aras Tinggi dalam Pembelajaran Matematik

“…Penelitian terhadap kajian-kajian lepas juga mendapati sikap adalah berkait rapat dengan pencapaian matematik (Capuno et al, 2019;Damrongpanit, 2019;Kibrislioglu, 2015;Tanujaya et al, 2017) yang mana sikap terhadap matematik yang positif secara langsung akan meningkatkan pencapaian dalam mata pelajaran matematik dan sikap terhadap matematik yang negatif akan mendatangkan kesan yang sebaliknya terhadap pencapaian matematik pelajar. Kajian literatur mendapati masih kurang kajian tempatan yang dijalankan untuk mengkaji hubungan sikap dan kesediaan dengan pencapaian matematik khususnya sikap dan kesediaan terhadap perlaksanaan KBAT dalam mata pelajaran matematik.…”

Contributing Factors of Secondary Students’ Attitude towards Mathematics Contributing Factors of Attitudes towards Mathematics

“…The term 'attitude towards mathematics' is not easily defined. Kibrislioglu (2015) defines the term as the feeling of liking or not liking the subject that leads to the tendency of either engaging or avoiding participation in mathematical activities; a perception that mathematics is good or bad and being useful or not. In Tahar et al (2010), attitude towards mathematics is defined as one's emotional disposition whether positive or negative about the subject.…”

“…Previous achievement has also been related to students' attitude towards mathematics (Kibrislioglu, 2015;Dodeen et al, 2014;Mathai, 2014). Previous achievement is linked to the students' belief that positive results from past examinations will help them to learn mathematics (Mazana et al, 2019).…”

Improving Students’ Perception Towards Learning Mathematics: Impact of Teaching Application of Mathematics

“…Preferences in mathematics, style of studying mathematics, classroom activities engagements and manymore will be affected if students' feelings and perception about mathematics are negative. It will be worst if this emotion affects the achievement of the students [6]. Therefore, teachers need to apply effective teaching style and employ innovations in learning as it can increase ability of thinking and improve positive beliefs of students.…”