Mathematical Anxiety Among Secondary Level Girls Students
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2016
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Faculty of Education, Tribhuvan University Kirtipur
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The study entitled “Mathematical Anxiety among Secondary Level Girls Students” explores the anxiety felt by the Grade X girls students. Mixed design was adopted in this study.The total population of this study was 100 students studying in grade X from ten schools of Kathmandu valley. The sample of this study was 100 students from the selected schools. The sampling procedure of this study was random sampling. The data were collected through questionnaire and interview with both teachers and students. The collected data were analyzed and interpreted by using mean score. The major findings of this study wereamong 100 sample students, the anxiety was found on 44 students. The other important finding of this study was the cause of anxiety among students had been identified. It was found that student's pre-knowledge and interest, course content, teacher's competency, school management, peer group, economic and educational condition of family and so on were responsible for anxiety in mathematics in some high or low degree.
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Anxiety, Mathematics education, Students