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High school students’ attitudes toward mathematics and its relation to mathematics learning achievement
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Attitudes toward mathematics have been acknowledged among factors related
to students’ mathematics learning achievement. The positive attitudes may decrease when the education level getting higher. This study applied a mixedmethod approach to describe students’ attitudes toward mathematics and to
analyze the correlation between attitudes toward mathematics and mathematics
learning achievement among students in the coastal area of Aceh Province, specifically in Lhokseumawe City and North Aceh Regency. Total of 481 eleventh
graders completed attitudes toward mathematics questionnaire online and 19 of
them were involved in semi-structured interview. Data of mathematics learning
achievement was obtained from students’ scores in their report card of the previous semester. Data analyses were conducted by using Spearman’s correlation
and chi-square test. The results of the study revealed that attitudes toward
mathematics have a weak negative correlation but significant with mathematics
learning achievement. This shows that there is a small percentage of students
who have low learning achievement in mathematics tend to have a positive
attitude towards mathematics in the high category, while students with high
achievement on the contrary. Based on the results of the study, we provide several suggestions regarding learning mathematics and the direction of further
research.
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English
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| Publisher | Jurnal Riset Pendidikan Matematika : Yogyakarta., 2021 |
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