Attitude & Mathematical Achievement of Different Levels of Indian Secondary School Students (original) (raw)
There are some problems with a negative mathematical attitude towards the very large number of students that contribute to academic success. In the current context in which our nation is going, we need new teaching methods that can be helpful in solving our problems. It is necessary bring them vision in the right direction from different angles of attitude towards mathematics and to achieve the levels of mathematical success. In this study an attempt has been taken to understand the statistical gains about mathematical attitudes in relation to mathematical achievement. We conducted a survey of 122 students in class VIII to class X in high school (Students 'Academy, Kolkata. 'Attitudes to Mathematics Questionnaire' were taken from "A Modified Fennema-Sherman Mathematics Attitude Scale (MFAS) (1980)" was conducted for 122 students and "Attitude Towards Mathematics Inventory (ATMI) (1996)" to obtain from 90 students and feedback collected and taken from the "Educational Outcome" of 91 high school students. The results showed that the attitude was positively and significantly improved in mathematics studies where no significant differences were found between the different grades of high school students. The gender difference was found to be insignificant for attitude and mathematical achievement. So it can be concluded that attitude and mathematical achievement are positively correlated and gender difference is equally unaffected for mathematical performance.
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