Attitudee of decondary level students and teachers towards arithmetic

Abstract

The study entitled Attitudes of Secondary Level Students and Mathematics Teachers towards Arithmetic was aimed at compare the attitudes of gender difference in students towards arithmetic. The vision of secondary level mathematics teachers and students towards arithmetic also viewed in this thesis. According to the objectives of the study, corresponding hypothesis were formulated. The study adopted survey design. A set of statements i.e. questionnaire with 31 statements for teachers and 30 statements for students and open oral type interview schedule were the tool for collecting data. According to the theoretical framework the questionnaire were categorized into four categories as teaching methods/ behavior, positive attitude, negative attitude, application of arithmetic's. Open interview was constructed upon the five different points as achievement, persistence, engagement, relevance activities and feedback. The questionnaire forms were distributed to three hundred students of twenty sampled schools in which fifteen students were taken from each and other questionnaire form was also distributed to twenty mathematics teachers of sampled school. The open types interview was constructed by the interaction with two math teachers and five/ five boys and girls students. The data were collected, tabulated, ordered, compared, calculated and analyzed by using different techniques. Also chisquire test and t-test were performed at 0.05 levels. To analyze the attitude of secondary level mathematics teachers and students towards arithmetic and comparison of boys and girls student's attitudes, descriptive method was applied. From the analysis and interpretation of collected data, the following findings were drawn.  There is positive attitude of students towards arithmetic.  There is somewhere positive attitude of secondary math teachers toward arithmetic  There is gender difference in the student's attitude towards arithmetic.  There is similar attitude of students and teachers towards arithmetic. This thesis studied about the attitude of secondary level students and teachers towards arithmetic, comparing the attitudes of students and teachers as well as boy students and girl students, of survey design involving questionnaire and interview schedule.