Students’ Attitude Towards Mathematics

Abstract

This study focused on Students Attitude towards mathematics at grade X of Baitadi district. This study is based on mixed method under concurrent design. Survey was conducted for quantitative data and interview with students’ and teachers’ for qualitative data. The purpose of this study was to find the students’ attitude towards mathematics and the factors affecting students’ attitude towards mathematics at grade X. Researcher selected 230 students from 12 community based schools by simple random sampling method (odd-even method) and the schools were selected by systematics sampling method. The data were collected from questionnaire and unstructured interview schedule. For the quantitative data 40 statements of questionnaire were used in this study. The collected data were organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using the statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) program. Percentage and 2-test were used to find out the attitude of students towards mathematics at 0.05 level of significance. The responses from interview were recorded and transcribed under the headings and then were organized in themes and categories that emerged. The result of this study showed that most of the students had positive attitude towards mathematics at grade X but many of the students have facing so many problems such as, lack of students’ confidence level, mathematical anxiety, lack of guardians’ qualification, home environment, social culture, social tradition, social discrimination, lack of trained teacher, lack of teaching material, and due to other physical facility are the main factors that affecting students’ attitude towards mathematics.