Causes of Low Achievement in learning mathematics at Secondary Level

Abstract

This is case study research titled on “Causes of low achievement in learning mathematicsat secondary level”. The primeconcern of this study was to analyze the causes of lowachievement of student in learning mathematics and to suggest the possible ways for thebetterment of student’s achievement in mathematics. For this study researcher selected one government school through conveniencesampling procedure from Kanchanpur district. The interview guidelines, classroom observationform and school documents were the main tools of this study. The collected data wereorganized, analyzed and interpreted based on descriptive analysis to find the causes of lowachievement in mathematics learning. After analyzing and interpretation of collected data, the findings indicates lack ofteaching learning materials, poor school environment, poor motivation for students are thecauses of low achievement in learning mathematics. Also findings indicates that there is most ofthe parents were illiterates so that they cannot provides further guidance and feedback inmathematics, students didn’t pay attention while the teacher taught in classroom are the maincauses of low achievement in mathematics learning at secondary level.