Maths Anxiety In Relation To Achievement In Mathematics Among Secondary Students

Math anxiety is caused by poor test grades, inability (or unwillingness) to complete difficult assignments, negative predispositions of parents, and even the mathematics teacher. Teachers and parents that are afraid of mathematics pass that on to their students and children (Furner & Duffy, 2002). It could be very difficult for students to like mathematics when their parents did not do well in mathematics themselves, and thus do not understand it or do not think it is important. Students could see their parents as having a job and doing well without a great love for mathematics and think that they will be successful without an appreciation of mathematics as well. So, with the intention of this, the investigator intended to carry out the present study on relationship between maths anxiety and achievement in mathematics among secondary students. The data were collected from 300 IX standard students from Government and Private schools in Coimbatore District using Maths Anxiety Questionnaire adopted from Amutha Wilcy Thangam (2011). The simple random sampling method was adopted to select the sample. The collected data were analyzed using descriptive analysis and correlation. The study concludes that there is no significant relationship between maths anxiety and achievement in mathematics among secondary students Coimbatore District.