Students Attitude towards Mathematics at Grade XI

Abstract

This study focused on Students Attitude towards Mathematics at Grade XI of Saptari district. This study is based on quantitative method under the survey design. The purpose of this study was to find the Higher secondary level students attitude towards mathematics and the factors affecting student towards mathematics at grade XI. Researcher selected 230 students from 8 community based schools and the schools were selected by systematics sampling method. The data were collected from questionnaire 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 percentage and  2 -test to find out the students attitude towards mathematics at grade XI at 0.05 level of significance. The result of this study were that the most of the student had positive attitude towards mathematics at grade XI. But many of the student have facing so many problems such as lack of students' confidence level, mathematical anxiety, lack of guardians qualification, home environment, social culture, social tradition. There were the main factors that affecting higher secondary level student attitude towards mathematics.