Abstract
Attitude is an affective variable that can affect the academic life of students significantly. In Nigeria, attitude in mathematics is among the factors influencing performance in math’s subject, especially among primary school students. The study aimed at identifying factors that indicate the student’s negative attitude in math’s subject, the population of the study is 1,626 from 6 selected primary schools in Nasarawa Local Government Area Kano, Nigeria. A sample of 384 respondents was selected using the Krejcie and Morgan table. A Mathematics Attitude Questionnaire (MAQ) was completed by the respondents which measure the students affect, behavior and cognitive aspects, all the data collected were analyzed using the statistical package for social science (SPSS). The results show the respondents are experiencing a negative attitude in math’s subject and it is recommended that parents and teachers are required to provide some supportive measures for changing the student's attitude. If a negative attitude among students is not addressed, the career of students will be very limited and their math’s performance will be relatively poor as well
Highlights
Mathematics is an important subject and learning math is part of our everyday life because it helps to develop and train the mind right from childhood (Suleiman, Rameli, & Ado, 2002)
Despite the importance attached to math subject as an academic discipline that students need in the society as explained by Nigeria’s National Policy on Education, mathematics is still perceived as a difficult subject for some students in primary schools in Nigeria (Aliyu Garba, Ismail, Osman, & Rameli, 2019)
Responding to the research objective of the present study, which is purposely designed to identify the level of attitude among primary school students in Nigeria, descriptive statistics such as the standard deviation, mean, percentage and the frequencies were used in the process of analyzing the data
Summary
Mathematics (math) is an important subject and learning math is part of our everyday life because it helps to develop and train the mind right from childhood (Suleiman, Rameli, & Ado, 2002). Attitude is an important variable considered as the contributing factor leading to students’ poor performance in math and its dislike. It is seen as the evaluation of aspects including idea, knowledge or any issue which will be unfavourable or favourable toward an aspect (Branscombe & Baron, 2017; Petkova, 2015). Attitude is important in human lives, it is part of daily activities which people love, adore, disagree, agree, abhor, argue oppose etc. All these are some evaluation of responses
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