Attitude of Secondary School Students' Towards Mathematics

Jyotirmoyee Pati; Uttam Kanti Jena; Mihir Kumar Beura

doi:10.55544/ijrah.4.2.15

Authors

Ms. Jyotirmoyee Pati Post Graduate Teacher, S.B Women's Higher Secondary School, Odisha, INDIA.
Prof. Uttam Kanti Jena Professor in Education, RNIASE, Cuttack, Odisha, INDIA.
Mr. Mihir Kumar Beura Teacher Educator, DIET, Cuttack, Odisha, INDIA.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.55544/ijrah.4.2.15

Keywords:

Attitude Towards Mathematics, Secondary School Students

Abstract

Mathematics is one of the main subject of our life. Information about mathematics helps to make better choices in everyday life. So mathematics knowledge become most important now a days. present study intended to find the Attitude of secondary school students towards mathematics in Jajpur district of Odisha, India. The study adopted a descriptive survey research design. 100 secondary school students were selected through a purposive sampling procedure. The data was collected by the Attitude Towards Mathematics Scale (A T M S) developed by Dr. S.C. Gakhar, and Rajni, to measure the attitude of secondary school student’s towards mathematics. The findings of the study revealed that private secondary school students have more positive attitude towards mathematics than government secondary schools. It also found that girl students have more positive attitude than boys.

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