Friday, 9 March 2012

What Causes Mathematics Anxiety


From the research conducted by (Marzita Puteh, 1998), there are several causes of mathematics anxiety. The major cause of mathematics anxiety was related to teacher personality and their style of teaching. Besides that, public examination and their effects also lead to mathematics anxiety. Other than that, it is also related to affective domain or the self factor such as student’s personality and his perception to mathematics. Feelings and worries also lead to mathematics anxiety since students will have difficulties with their memory and innate disability.
Moreover, students were also burden by parent’s expectation and standards where they must excel in mathematics if they want to success. Furthermore, it was found that peer group influences and the relevance of studying mathematics also caused mathematics anxiety.

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