OUTLOOK OF UNDER GRADUATES TOWARDS MATHEMATICS

ABSTRACT

The objective of this study is to investigate the attitude of under graduate students towards the study of Mathematics. The area of the study is confined in district Jind of Haryana. The study adopted purposive and random sampling methods. The purposive selection of six under graduate colleges, two each from rural, semi-urban and urban area is followed by the random sampling of ten students from each college and these yield sixty respondents for the study. Simple statistical tools were used to analyze the data. The analysis shows that various unscientific methods are used widely by the students (a sizable number of students) of under graduation level to study Mathematics. As a result they gradually lose their self- confidence and self-efficacy towards Mathematics and suffer from fear-psychosis and Mathematics anxiety. The study therefore recommends that teachers should be innovative in handling the instructions of teaching-learning methods in Mathematics.

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