Mathematical Anxiety among Secondary Level Girls students

Abstract

The main target of this research was to find out the causes of anxiety in mathematicslearning and their respective remedial measures of secondary level girl students. Theresearch was conducted at Mahakali secondary school, Mandan Deupur municipality,kavre.The research design of the study was qualitative. The tools used in datacollection procedure are Interview, FGD and class observation techniques. Data wereanalysed and interpreted by coding, theming, categorizing and triangulation. The results inferred that the weak physical environment of the school intensifiedmathematical anxiety among the girl students..Student's family environmentmeasured in income and educational level and housework burden intensifiedmathematical anxiety among the girl students. To reduce the anxiety in this situation,socio-economic status of student's family should be uplifted.Ineffective methods andmaterials used by teachers for teaching learning in the mathematics classroom wereunable to entertain with the mathematics contents and it enhanced mathematicalanxiety among the girl students. Thus, for the remedy, student centered teachingmethods should be used with effective teaching materials.The course contents werelengthy and toughfor the students. Thus, it intensified anxiety on girl students. Toavoid the anxiety in this situation, students must receive complete knowledge andskill at each grade.There was lack of competency in the mathematics teachers. Thus,to reduce mathematical anxiety on girl students, competency of mathematics teachersmust be enhanced through special training programs.Teachers did not motivated thestudents well, which lost their self-efficacy and consequently inflated mathematicsanxiety. Hence, there was need of motivation and interest to reduce mathematicalanxiety among the girl students.There was lack of peer group work that would helpstudents to each other in learning mathematics. Hence, it induced mathematicalanxiety among the girl students and it was downsized by creating peer group learningenvironment in the school. Teachers, policy makers, and in theory building could implement this study's results.This research is related to mathematical anxiety among the secondary level girlstudents.Therefore, it is helpful for mathematics teachers, students, textbook writers,curriculum planners to develop their professional fields.