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Why Is Mathematics Important In Mathematics

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Mathematics is an important subject that has to be taken at all educational levels in Malaysia. The emphasis on this subject is important as it literally plays major role in every field of work and also in the development of scientific and technology area that give direct impact to our Malaysian economic growth. The director or curriculum of the Malaysia Ministry of Education, Mahzan B. Bakar stated that the curriculum for the secondary school has been developed in order to provide opportunities for the students to attain mathematical knowledge and skill, and build up their higher order problem solving and decision making skills to enable them to cope with the daily life challenges(Curriculum Development Center Ministry of Education Malaysia, …show more content…

Several efforts have been done by our government in developing the mathematics knowledge and skill for our Malaysian pupils, but there are still decreasing in students’ mathematics skills compared to other country. Take for example, in the Program for International Students Assessment (PISA) in 2011 which examines the scholastic performance of 15 years old students in mathematics, science and reading organized by the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), the score gain by our Malaysian students’ is 412 points lower than the average international level score which is 421 points. The score of the mathematics assessment shows that the lack of basic mathematics proficiency of our students’ and our country was ranked 26th for mathematics out of 42 countries that participate in the program. (Penang Institute, 2013)

Regarding this issue, the researcher relates it with the working experience in teaching mathematics in one of the colleges in Keningau, where the researcher observed that the students still have problem in performing basic mathematical operation and applying the basic concept in solving mathematics problem. Even though, they should already attain the basic knowledge of mathematics during the lower secondary in their previous school …show more content…

According to Georgewill (1990), student disinterest to learn mathematics cause by their fright or phobia toward the subject. (Tella , 2007).This observation shows that the lack of basic knowledge in mathematics and interest to learn will affect the overall performance in mathematics.Based on Aiken (1976), students’ interest in learning mathematics is related with their motivation and self-confidence in learning the subject (Tella , 2007). Motivation can be described as a course of action of pupils that able to initiate guides and maintain goal-oriented behaviors in a given task or in a lesson (Cherry, 2014).So, the performance of a person in the task given is highly related with their motivation to achieve it. Biehler and Snowman (1986) stated that psychologist agreed that students’ motivation is one of the important ingredients for learning (Tella, 2007). According to Tella (2007), the students’ characteristic

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