Abstract
To explore the impact of academic burden on the physical and mental health of primary school students, combined with the results of the Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report in 2018, the relationship among the development of mathematical literacy, mathematics academic burden, and the physical and mental health of primary school students is studied. First, the relationship between mathematical literacy and mathematics anxiety is analyzed, and related influencing factors and measurement methods of mathematics anxiety are introduced. A questionnaire is then designed for primary school students’ mathematical stress, and the reliability and validity of the designed questionnaire are tested. Finally, a questionnaire survey is conducted on students, parents, and teachers in the third, fourth, and fifth grades of three standardized public primary schools. The results of the questionnaire survey show that students, teachers, and parents have a general understanding of the mathematics academic burden of primary school students at this stage. A total of 70% of teachers believe that primary school students have a heavy mathematics burden; 50% of parents think that primary school students are under heavy academic stress; 70% of primary school students believe that the heavy mathematics burden leads to reduced sleep time and extracurricular activities, which has a serious impact on the physical and mental health of primary school students. This research provides a reference for improving the current balance between education and students’ physical and mental health in China.
Highlights
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report results in 2018 show that the average on-campus learning time of students in four provinces in China is 31.8 h per week, ranking 4th among countries participating in the test
The relationship between mathematical literacy and mathematics anxiety is explored based on the PISA results to further study the correlation between academic burden and students’ physical and mental health
7% of parents and 3% of teachers have no idea about the mathematics academic burden
Summary
The Programme for International Student Assessment (PISA) report results in 2018 show that the average on-campus learning time of students in four provinces in China is 31.8 h per week, ranking 4th among countries (regions) participating in the test. The average reading, mathematics, and science learning time of students in the four provinces in China is 4.6 h per week, 5.0 h per week, and 5.5 h per week, respectively, ranking the 7th, 8th, and 3rd among countries (regions) participating in the test. For the total learning time, students in the four provinces of China spend more time on reading, mathematics, and science. The. Academic Burden for School Students class hours of the three subjects account for 47.6% of the total class hours, ranking 17th among countries (regions) participating in the test (Pino et al, 2016). With the deepening attention to students’ mental health, it is found that students’ mental health shows a downward trend, showing bipolarity and instability in psychological problems (Tsocheva et al, 2018)
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