Findings and Discussion
This chapter presents the survey analysis of the factors affecting the Anxiety of the students in Mathematics and the suggested ways to avoid it.
The Factors Affecting the Anxiety of the Students in Mathematics
The first problem included in this study dealt on the factors affecting Anxiety of the Students in Mathematics.
The first factor that affects the anxiety of the student was being shy. "Nahihiya ako na baka mali ying maisagot ko." It means that the student were lacking in self-confidence when they were in Math class. It implies that student is confused about his answer, and it is an acceptable reason on why the student is not participating in class.
According to Dowker et al. (2016) low participation and low achievement in Mathematics were concern of many countries. As stated by (Wigfield and Meece,1988; Ma and Kishor, 1997). Other forms of mathematics appear to be difficult for so many people to attain, and some people have mild or intense specific mathematical learning disabilities. But not all disabilities can cause mathematical difficulties. Large number of children and adults have mathematics anxiety, which may intensely destroy their mathematical performance and learning, that were caused by avoidance of mathematical activities.
On the whole study it implies that, attitudes to mathematics tend to be worst with age during childhood and adolesence,which leads to negative implications for mathematical development, adult engagement in
The Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children 2nd Edition-Self-Report (MASC 2 – SR) is a complete assessment of anxiety dimensions present in Children and Adolescents aged between 8 and 19 years [45]. The MASC 2-SR includes 50 items with subscales for measuring the Separation Anxiety, General Anxiety Disorder (GAD), Social Anxiety that includes Total, Humiliation & Rejection, Performance Fears, Obsessions/Compulsions (OCD), Physical Symptoms that includes Total, Panic and Tense & Restless and Harm Avoidance. The t –scores of the MASC 2 are based on age and sex based norms [45]. This scale is considered as the newly revised version with the essential features of the original MASC [45, 46].
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Maxine is an African American, 56-year-old, female, who is currently living in a women’s shelter near Downtown Los Angeles. Based on the background information, Maxine’s recent hospitalization can be understood from the theory of reasoned action. The theory of reasoned action looks at the influence of significant others on individual behavior and whether individual behavior follows reasonably from their own norm about performing the behavior (Yzer, 2012). Although Maxine has a good record of adherence to her medication, her lack of familial support and passing of her son and husband influenced her health condition to take a turn for the worst. Maxine is dealing with anxiety, an expression of anticipation when something bad is going to happen,
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To my delight, I do not feel nervous anymore. The first few months of school taught me that I could handle funky activities through my preparation and knowledge. Comparatively, I would like to achieve in my other classes. I am going to remain working hard in math so I can earn an “A” next
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Asian is a very friendly and helpful sixth grade student, who expresses interest in science and math. Currently, Asian resides with his mother, Ms. Holmes and younger brother. Asian is the oldest son. According to Asian, he states that he enjoys math, gym, music and art because they are very fun activities. Asian likes to play basketball and video game when he is not at school.
On Friday December 1st, I conducted a clinical interview with two of my neighbors. During this interview I watched as they completed a couple of mathematical tasks. The tasks that they were given consisted of three problems: Marcy’s Dots, Sarah Dots, and David’s Staircase. Throughout these problems, I watched two students attack the problems in different ways, and struggle to understand, but despite their hardship, I watched them rationalize their thoughts in accordance with the skills this task required. These three problems address the Mathematical content standards 7.EE.1, 7.EE.2 and Mathematical practice standards, Problem Solving and reasoning abstractly and quantitatively.
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Some students feel like math is a new language. When students fail to work in a math class they may feel scare and try to ran away math as much as possible in the future. Some math teacher doesn’t know the beauty of math. Many students think that they do not need math in future for example some want to be a footballer but they thought they don’t need math of course even football need math like having angles. Some of the students aren’t patience of wronging so they try to avoid math as much as possible.
Having the knowledge and basic skills of mathematics enables a person to make personal and economic decisions in everyday life. A person can still succeed without achieving