Factors affecting Mathematics achivement of student at secondary level

Abstract

This study focuses on the “Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement of Students’ at Secondary Level.” This is a survey type study that attempts to describe the achievement of Mathematics and to analyze the factors that affects the achievement of students. Six public schools were selected randomly from all public schools of Parbat district. One set of achievement test was administrated to find out the achievement level of students of selected grade of selected school. And one set of opinionnaire scale was prepared and distributed to the students to find out the effect of teaching learning process, home environment, social variable, time variable, school environment and error in problem solving in students’ achievement. Unstructured interviews were taken with the mathematics teacher from respective sample school concerning towards these factors. Related literature, mathematical tools which are related to this study have been used to interpret and made reflection over the analyzed information. Student’s t- Value and χ2-value were used to interpret the result. This study shows that the achievement of mathematics is very low in. The main factors that affects in achievement in mathematics are parents economic condition, parents’ education, prior knowledge, different error made by students in solving mathematical problems, peer groups, school environment, teaching learning process, drill and practice.