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QUESTIONNAIRE

Direction: Please fill in the blanks and check each item with the correct

information needed.

Name (optional): __________________________

Sex: Male Female

Strand: Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM)

Humanities and Social Sciences (HUMSS)

Technical-Vocational-Livelihood (TVL)

Accountancy, Business and Management (ABM)

Factors that affect your Mathematics Performance

Direction: Base on the Factors put a check mark on the following

factors that affects your mathematics performance.

Legend:

4- Strongly Agree

3- Agree

2- Disagree

1- Strongly Disagree

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Psychological Factors 4 3 2 1

1. Anxiety about grades

2. Stress from personal issues

3. Depression affecting motivation

4. Fear of failure

5. Low self-confidence

Academic Factors 4 3 2 1

1. Lack of resources

2. Poor teaching quality

3. Overcrowded classrooms

4. Limited study time

5. Difficulty understanding material

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Social Factors 4 3 2 1

1. Peer pressure

2. Socioeconomic status

3. Family support

4. Bullying

5. Cultural attitudes

Personal Factors 4 3 2 1

1. Health issues

2. Lack of sleep

3. Personal interests

4. Learning disabilities

5. Time management skills

CHAPTER II

Review of Related Literature

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In this chapter, the literatures were carefully selected and

deliberated upon on the basis of relatively and reliability of the
information presented. These literatures help the researchers to have an
evidence and proof for their study. Also, this chapter discusses the
relevance of the study.

Related Literature

Foreign Literature

Mathematics was viewed negatively where Senior High school

students took it as difficult, deadly, abstract and boring subject. Paul et

al. (2020) showed that Math phobia can be caused by teacher's

knowledge and values, teaching methods and assessment. Michael

(2015) reported that lower academic performance of learners in

mathematics could be caused by teacher's classroom works and their

feedback to the learners.

Ganyaupfu (2014) also indicated that there is a high positive

relationship between student's performance and teaching methods.

Mabena et al. (2021) study showed that lack and inadequacy of

appropriates resources in teaching and learning led to lower academic

performance in mathematics. Maria de Lourdes et al. (2020) argues that

teacher, peer, and family attitudes toward mathematics either negative

or positive influence learner's confidence in mathematics. The

researcher's findings showed that learners who have positive attitude

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towards their teachers have high performance level compared to the

learners with negative attitudes.

Some studies have demonstrated a strong and significant

relationship between Mathematics attitude and performance. Positive

attitudes among students will be a precipice for good academic result in

mathematics and related sciences subjects (Sunghwan Hwang and

Taekwon Son, 2021).

Teaching and learning resources are all those things which the

teacher and student do or use in order to achieve teaching and learning

objectives such as the textbooks, charts, computers and ICT and

calculators. Those teaching and learning resources help the learners to

hear, see, touch, smell and taste and conceive abstract information

from concepts, practice and also help learners to be able to draw some

conclusions and lack of any resources make teaching and learning

mathematics very hard (Ukobizaba, et al. 2019).

A supportive school environment can be seen in the form of

supportive physical facilities such as classrooms, adequate desks and

appropriate and relevant textbooks and other relevant instructional

materials that have a direct positive impact on learner performance in

mathematics. Similarly, schools with adequate physical facilities and

teaching materials perform better than those that are not well equipped.

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He further concludes that the lack of physical resources and

instructional materials is strongly correlated with learners' poor

academic performance (Darsih, January, 2018).

Some student's failure in mathematics is caused by lack of self-

confidence and personal adjustment to situation. Teachers would help

students to know that mathematics at secondary level determine the

course offer at the tertiary institutions and this helped to take

mathematics more seriously and proved the level of performance.

Teachers encourage students to form habit of practicing more questions

relevant to each topics they have done and keep a breast with past

mathematics topic learnt and also teachers creates mathematical club

and encourage students to join and allows for exchange of mathematics

ideas with others (Dabone, et al. 2015).

The key point to be taken into consideration in preparation of

lesson should involve learners' experiences, abilities, interest,

motivation and skills. Lesson preparation and presentation should

follow a logical sequence that motivates individual leaners (Anwer,

2019).

A research on the effect of teaching and learning tools on the

performance of students in Kenya Certificate of Secondary Schools in

free day secondary education in Embakasi district found that most

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schools lacked sufficient teaching and learning materials that could

boost performance, such as reference books, teacher guides and

calculators (Atieno, 2014). Similarly, lack of enough learning facilities

and resources and poor supervision of learning activities result into

students' poor performance (Kabala, 2012). This means that there must

be adequate and good control of these learning resources for the

students to perform well in mathematics.

Salad (2015) conducted a study in Puntland province, Somalia,

on factors affecting the success of mathematics. He developed that the

performance of mathematics exams is affected by teaching and learning

tools such as books, charts, calculators and rulers. This discovery came

after discovering that these services were inadequate in the schools

studied, a factor that contributed significantly to low mathematics

results.