Abstract:

The aim of this study is to investigate the attitudes of the primary school students, towards mathematics according to various variables. The sample of the study is based on 29 girls and 35 boys giving the total of 64 children who have graduated from 9 Eylül Primary school and have enrolled to Bayraktar Türk Marif College in the year 2006-2007 and are now in seventh grade together with 21 girls and 25 boys giving the total of 46 children from Near East Primary school who are now in the Near East College. In order to reveal children’s success in mathematics the principals from school have given us the opportunity to gain access to children marks based on their reports. In this study we have used the mathematics attitude scale which was developed by A�?kar (1986).  To analyze the given variables based on the attitudes towards mathematics percentage (%) mean (), standart deviation (sd) was used. To be able to evaluate the variables; correlation analysis and t-test were used. The statistical significance level was given as 0.05. The SPSS 12.0 programme was used in the variables analysis.

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