｢수학에 대한 태도와 불안에 관한 연구｣

A Study of Attitude and Anxiety on Mathematics

Looking into the number of students taking Soo-neung test or the results from the enquete for the purpose of organizing the option-based curriculum after the 7th curriculum began, we can see it becomes clearer that the number of students applying for humanity course has largely outnumbered the number of students applying for science course since the late 1990s. These phenomena must be big troubles for us looking forward to getting into the advanced country. So, there came the counterplans from government, college, and enterprise in the hope that the good students are willing to apply for science course. In order to find out why these phenomena of evasion from science course happens, this article deals with the attitude and anxiety of elementary, middle, and high school students about math. Consider the following: 1. How is the transition of elementary, middle, and high school students in the attitude about math? 2. How is the transition of elementary, middle, and high school students in math anxiety? 3. How are the attitudes about math related with math anxiety, and the researches about how to decrease math anxiety evolved? Analyzing enquete using attitude standard made by Aiken and Dreger(1963) and math anxiety standard (MAS) made by Fennema and Sherman(1976), we ve found the conclusion is as follows: First, we should offer the positive learning experience to the students who have the negative attitude about math and try to help them lower the degree of the math anxiety. Secondly, there are plenty of room for making an effort in that the number of students who don t like math, as they grow older, increases, but the number of them is not that much. Thirdly, the math anxiety of the 2nd grade students in the middle school becomes more increased when compared in terms of a average of factors. But there was no meaningful difference over the schools. Finally, we have become aware that the math attitude is highly related with the math anxiety. And it is hoped that these studies of the attitude and anxiety about math would be well applied to the actual spots, schools.