Abstract:

This study aims to identify the factors affectıng students’ the mathematıcs success and determine the effect level of the factors via multiple correspondence analysis. The study group is consisted of 460 8th grade students from 2 different cities. The students have taken the survey “Factors Affecting Mathematics Success”, developed by the researchers to identify the descriptive characteristics of the students and the maintained data have been compared with the TEOG results of the students via multiple correspondence analysis. The results of the analyses operated by SPSS15.0 package software has shown that the students’ success levels have been affected by their fathers’ academic background, status of educational support, cultural differences (ethnical roots) and attitudes towards the course and the teachers.