Intellectual

          As mentioned before, teachers normally are being trained on the pedagogy of teaching and learning rather than to understanding the concept itself. Therefore, we are sure that every teacher knows how to perform the calculation and pass it in the same way the application to the students without knowing the actual concept of the formulas and where or how it is coming from.

When some of the high curiosity students expecting to learn more than simply the application itself, teacher find that it is hard to analyse and elaborate the concept, and letting students to be more easily relating the understanding they are performing, into the real world of application. This is because mathematics does not come by itself without any reason. By looking through how those mathematicians creating those formulas, we can see that most of them are stranded into a real world situation, which inspire them to design and manipulate suitable formula to be use by everyone else.

            The intelligence in overcoming difference learning background also is a big challenges to a teacher especially in local, there are three main different learning background and each of them are conducting their own creativity so help students improving their understanding. When all of them are gathered into one same teacher, the teacher will found that one same question will lead to many difference applications which come to the same answer. So it is depending on ones intellectual to judge the marking scheme. Any inappropriate action will undermines confidence students’ confidence in performing the same calculation in future.

Cultural Misconception

            Issues relating with the cultural matter happened all around the world. The misconceptions are usually deeply implanted in the basic understanding and affecting  ones perception, even in the mind of the teacher which also coming from the same background.

“If interaction always has a purpose, it also has meaning for those involved. At its broadest, the teacher-student interaction is probably interpreted as having some form of educational meaning (as opposed to other forms of meaning that could exist between adults and young people). However, when we dig down to specific individual meanings for the interaction that takes place “in the school” there can, once again, be a wide variety of meanings for those involved. For the teacher, for example, these can range from “education” being a vocation – their mission is to influence and change lives for the better – to the idea that education is “just a job”; something that is to be endured because it pays the bills”

                                                                                                            (Chris & Tony, n.d)

From what have quoted from Chris and Tony, it is the matter of what the teacher is thinking about the teaching and that will be the matter of how he or she performs the teaching process.

            Another misconception is where, from the research of Sian Beilock, teachers who are anxious about their own math abilities are translating some of that to their kids (Karen Kaplan, 2010). The research are saying that the anxiety that pass through from the teacher to the students may lead to a misunderstanding that male can do better mathematics than female.

Environment

The issues related to the environment, we are pointing towards the facilities and school management abilities which are not in the hand of control by teachers; where we may call it as the spontaneous event or dilemmas.

Sometimes teachers have prepared well on thing that he or she is going to teach but suddenly things does not going well as expected. It could be the events arise in the middle of teaching such as announcement of gathering teachers of science and mathematics for the meetings, or announcement of the clubs meeting that student’s representative will ask for the permissions to give their announcement in meeting of few students in the class. These all are quite interrupting the process of teaching.

Now talk about the facilities, accidents could happen most of the time without expected. The faultiness of facilities such as computer, projectors, clashes schedule of laboratory arrangement and so on. All of these accidents was not able to be predicted, and the lesson might not going well even though teacher has planned and organize everything well.

Another issue that happened in most of the school in town area, which is one class, hold large number of students and some even reaching in the number of fifty or more. The class is too large until not every student will get the fully attention from the teacher. There are research proving that smaller classes can shrink the achievement gap and lead to reduced grade retention, fewer disciplinary actions, less dropping out, and more students taking college entrance exams (Jeremy & Charles, 2003).

Personality

Roseman and Smith believe that emotions are caused by the interpretations of events, rather than events themselves. (Mei-Lin Chang, 2009) Emotional can be affected by any of the following, it just the matter of how a person manage the emotion with tactful and not involving third party, which are the students in school. Emotion regulation refers to “the processes by which we influence which emotions we have, when we have them, and how we environment and express them”, said Gross (Mei-Lin Chang, 2009)

            Mostly emotion was distracted by surrounding such as family matter, financial difficulty, and physiological imbalance, which a person, without oneself awareness being brought forward into the life, and then to the works in school. Lastly, this imbalance emotion will be carry on into classes especially when facing students which we mostly know of their active behaviour. This normally will end up with either punishment and/or low performance of teaching and learning process.

            The failure to monitoring classes will also affecting ones emotion and having the feeling of did not wanted to get in to particular classes. From Nixon understanding, Emotional valences can extend to other aspects of the communication environment. For instance, negative experiences with emotion work can result in an overall negative emotional valence (Scott, Margaret & Joseph, 2010).They are sometime give up on trying to manage the class or only choose a few of the talent students to be concern more so that at least this particular students will have a better chance in scoring the paper. This action will lead to the misunderstanding on how the students think on the teacher by what the teacher may look on them. Students actually are a very simple in sensation of someone’s reaction. What the teacher done will let them having thought of that teacher did not likes them, and therefore as to rebel that action, they tend to dislike the teacher, following by hating the subject that teacher taught.

            We all know that learning mathematics is an on-going process, where mathematics is related in every single topic. Distributing mathematics into few topics is to let teaching to be convenient. But now days, teachers have been given so much of works until themselves having the difficulty in managing time. Mostly the classes will be taking over by temporary teachers or new teacher to continue the lessons. When they return to the class, they will find they it is hard to follow back what have been planned and the interruption of new scheduling will only make things getting worse.

Personal experiences are also the main reason on influencing teaching anxiety. Normally this happened to those who are new in teaching field. Mostly, Pre-service teachers learn majority about the pedagogy of teaching and learning, rather than to be tested the understanding on mathematics concepts and how pedagogy took place in understanding those concept ideas. Therefore, when they approaching the real teaching situation, they are merely wanted students to score high in examination and increasing their own reputation in teaching field. So they tend to teach in the form of memorising formulas and application. This was because they still lack of experience and suitable creativity in creating interesting lessons which fit to the students and the situation.

Furthermore, new and normally young teacher will be assigned to teach those who are less talented students which usually, the class align at the back of the rank. The reason of this kind of arrangement was because these classes normally need more attention and afford to guide compare to the others which aligned at the front rank. This has cause the new teachers, who are usually being blamed to be no experience and less professionals, facing the tough challenges at the mean while they might also being assigned to the others new activities of school rather than simply teaching in class.

Teaching Anxiety

                  As every issues were pointed to teachers, we are here to claim a little more justice for the teachers where even at the end, teachers still cannot avoid to be the party who should be the most responsible for the entire anxiety issues in math, but at least, to be given a little bit forgiveness.

            Here we are looking into three main factors that arise in approaching the teachers’ anxiety, which more suitable, the teaching anxiety. Therefore, we categorize it into three main categories, which are view from the personality, environment and intellectual.