The Relationship Between the Attitudes and Achievement in Mathematics of the Tenth Grade in Tulkerm District

This study aims at exploring the relationship between the tenth grade students and achievement in mathematics in Tulkerm District. Also, this study aims to investigate the tenth grade achievement levels, and to know their attitudes toward mathematics. This study attempted specifically to answer the following questions: 1- What are the levels of attitudes of the tenth grade students toward mathematics? 2- What are the levels of achievement of the tenth grade students in mathematics? 3- ls there any significant differences between tenth grade students’ attitudes towards mathematics attributed due to achievement level? 4- ls there any significant differences between the tenth grade students’ attributed towards mathematics attributed to Gender variable and residence and the reaction between them? 5- ls there any significant differences between the tenth grade students' attitudes towards mathematics attributed to reaction between gender variable and achievement level? 6- Is there any significant relationship between students’ attitudes and their achievement in mathematics? The sample consists of (388) male and female students from the tenth grade students, (193) male students and (l95) female students in the scholastic year 1998/1999 from governmental schools in Tulkerm District. The researcher prepared a questionnaire to measure student's attitudes toward mathematics. It consists of (36) items after according to number of scales which were used in the previous studies. Also, the researcher prepared a test to measure the students’ achievement in mathematics. The reliability factors of the study instruments were calculated. The questionnaire reliability reaches (0.85), and tl1at of the achievement test reached (0.82). The researcher used the (SPSS) package of social science for data analysis which was computed by computer that was after the researcher had corrected the copies of the students` achievement test. The results of the study are as follows: l- The achievement level ,in general, was low, where the percentage of the students who have low achievement was (74.5%) from the total number of students. 2- The mean of students attitudes on the questionnaire items was positive. 3- There were significant differences at (α=0.05) In the achievement according the interaction between gender variable and the residential place in favor city females. 4- There were significant differences at (α=0.05)in the students’ attitudes towards mathematics according the interaction between gender variable and the place of residence in favor 0l`city females. 5- There were significant differences between the attitudes of the students who have low level and who have high level of achievement , and between the students who have intermediate level and low level achieven1ent. 6- There was a significant relationship between at (α=0.05) between the attitudes toward mathematics and achievement. In light of the study results, the researcher recommended many recommendations ,which were: Giving the teachers more importance about the effective domain in teaching mathematics, giving remedial programs for the students who have negative attitudes toward mathematics, and giving importance for teachers’ attitudes toward the material they teach, and implementing extra studies in this topic that tackle the relationship between teacher's attitudes and students’ attitudes toward mathematics, and the students` attitudes toward mathematics and their attitudes towards the other subjects.