The Effects Of Mathematics Anxiety On Matriculation Students As Related To Motivation And Achievement

Based on the review of literature by Effandi Zakaria & Norazah Mohd Nordin (2008), the results of their study provide evidence that mathematical anxiety has an important effect in mathematics education. When the mathematics anxiety is high, students’ achievement is low, when the anxiety is low, students’ achievements is high. Therefore, teacher should be thinking on how to reduce students’ anxieties by finding a better way to teach mathematics. Implication on this, Woodard (2004) suggested techniques to reduce students’ anxiety towards mathematics. Firstly, create an environment in which students do not feel threatened and allowing them to relax. Secondly, teachers can use cooperative grouping to encourage teamwork in problem solving. Thirdly, teachers must teach at a slower pace as to let the students comprehend better of what the learning is all about. Last but not least, teachers can provide extra tuition session to build up the students’ understanding towards learning mathematics.