A study of Attitude towards mathematics of class X students and its Correlation with their academic achievement

Abstract The present research study tries to investigate the class X students attitude towards Mathematics and its correlation with their academic performance in this particular subject. The standardised tool of attitude towards Mathematics scale by Dr.S.C Gakhar Rajni was used for finding out the attitude of students and their attitude is compared with their performance and scoring in this subject. A sample of 112 students from Model English high schools were selected as a sample. The findings indicate that there is a significant difference between the male and female attitude towards mathematics, the male is having a higher attitude towards mathematics than female. The second findings showed that there is an insignificant difference between the male and female academic achievement in mathematics. The third findings showed that there is a positive moderate correlation between attitude towards mathematics and academic achievement in mathematics.