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Abstract
Background:
State of the literature: Mandler (1989), Mc Leod & Adams (1989) have shown that poor academic performance in mathematics is an emotional problem. Fennema & Sherman (1976, 1978), Whitley (1979), author (2012, 2013, 2014) have shown it to be attitudinal. These studies coincide in that mathematics anxiety has a negative effect on students. According to Akey (2006), there is a positive correlation between attitude and mathematics performance in students at the secondary level of education.
Materials and methods:
Our study sample was formed of one thousand students from the Centro de Estudios Tecnológicos Industrial y de Servicios No. 15 in Veracruz City. Statistics technique used was structural equation modeling.
Results:
The results of goodness of fit indices are meaningful when applied to students in High School Education, which indicates that the hypothetical model fits the theoretical model.
Conclusions:
Furthermore, the evidence obtained in this study contributes to predicting the reality describe by authors in regards to mathematics, while at the same time, giving light to redirect the questions in a way that gives rise to the search for new knowledge in a different environment to the one proposed by the authors.
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Article Type: Research Article
EURASIA J Math Sci Tech Ed, Volume 12, Issue 2, February 2016, 361-372
https://doi.org/10.12973/eurasia.2016.1216a
Publication date: 01 Jul 2016
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