Abstract
The aim of this research was to measure anxiety toward mathematics on Jr. High School students from Tuxtepec, Oaxaca, Mexico. It was utilized the Muñoz and Mato (2007) (Note 1) anxiety scale to analyze five dimensions of anxiety, anxiety toward: evaluation, temporality, understanding problems, number operations and math situations of real life. 509 questionnaires were random applied face to face to boys and girls students of all high school´s degrees. The statistical procedure utilized was the factorial analysis with principal component extracted. Results obtained allow us to know that variables related to the understanding of mathematical problems and evaluation have the biggest contribution to explain variance of the phenomenon studied.
Highlights
Main indicators of school performance in the European Union were obtained through two types of evaluations, the PISA test (Program for International Student Assessment) and TIMSS test (International Study of Trends in Mathematics and Science)
The following histograms show the main characteristics about population of study, like: gender, and semester or grade, and after this, we show the result from the factorial analysis with extracted components rotated
Education as all disciplines, need to sustain beliefs that are formed about a social phenomenon: Mathematics are part of the science, are present in the engineering, in more advanced technologies such as space flight, in modern medical techniques such as computed tomography, in meteorology, the financial studies and up to the art is influenced by mathematics, since the famous numerical discovery of Pythagoras, in the musical harmony
Summary
Main indicators of school performance in the European Union were obtained through two types of evaluations, the PISA test (Program for International Student Assessment) and TIMSS test (International Study of Trends in Mathematics and Science) Results of these tests allow us to see the concern because of the lack of progress in many Europeans countries in such important discipline as mathematics, considered a key to achieve countries development, which is evident in the Eurydice networks report (2011) called “teaching of mathematics in Europe, common challenges and national policies”, because one of the objectives for 2020 is that 15 years old people with an insufficient level of competence in reading, math and science must be less than 15%. In the last PISA tests report (2012), countries from European Union were located below the average of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) with 489 points of 494, but countries like Spain, Portugal and Italy had a score even below
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