Students’ Attitude Towards on Additional Mathematics at Class X
Date
2021
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Department of Mathematics Education
Abstract
This study focused on Students Attitude towards on Additional Mathematics at
Class X of Kathmandu district. This study is based on mixed method under concurrent
design. Survey was conducted for quantitative data and interview with students’ and
teachers’ for qualitative data. The purpose of this study was to find the students’ attitude
towards mathematics and the factors affecting students’ attitude towards mathematics at
grade X. Researcher selected 230 students from 12 community based schools by simple
random sampling method (odd-even method) and the schools were selected by
systematics sampling method. The data were collected from questionnaire and
unstructured interview 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
statistical package for social sciences (SPSS) program. Percentage and
2
-test were used
to find out the attitude of students towards mathematics at 0.05 level of significance. The
responses from interview were recorded and transcribed under the headings and then
were organized in themes and categories that emerged. The result of this study showed
that most of the students had positive attitude towards mathematics at grade X but many
of the students have facing so many problems such as, lack of students’ confidence level,
mathematical anxiety, lack of guardians’ qualification, home environment, social culture,
social tradition, social discrimination, lack of trained teacher, lack of teaching material,
and due to other physical facility are the main factors that affecting students’ attitude
towards on additional mathematics.
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Attitude towards, Additional mathematics