부모와 교사에 기인하는 초등학생의 수학불안에 관한 연구

Abstract

A Study on Elementary Students' Math Anxiety caused by Parents？and Teachers

NA HYUN SUK

Major in Elementary Mathematics Education Graduated School of Education Bukyong National University

Abstract Elementary students' negative experience of mathematics, at first or second hand, may often grow to math anxiety. In this thesis we investigate their math anxiety caused by parents and teachers negative attitudes toward mathematics. We conducted a open questionnaire survey of forth grade 128 elementary students and analyzed their questionnaires by means of Inductive Content Analysis (in short ICA), a well known qualitative data analysis method developed by Glass and Stauss in 1967. Results of ICA analysis were firstly classified into two groups, positively and negatively impacted factors on attitude of students' math learning. Then among negatively impacted factors we sorted out those relevant to either parents or teachers. Finally from them we deduced following results; 1. Elementary student attitudes of math learning were greatly influenced by teacher's characters and teaching methods. In particular we found that teacher's math anxiety transferred to that of student's. Also we confirmed the research results([Kwon,Jung-min(2006). The cause analysis and solution plans for mathematics avoidance actual condition]) that teacher's characters and teaching method is influential enough to entail student's math anxiety. 2. A teacher may be easily inclined to stand on his or her authority to students who may accept blindly what they are told from their teacher. We found that when teacher's authority negatively impacted on students attitudes of math learning, then it may cause their math anxiety. 3. We found that parents overly excessive interests or negative attitudes regarding math test results of their children may be more serious factors of math anxiety of them than math test anxiety itself. In particular we found that parent negative responses including physical punishments toward bad results of math tests negatively influence on their children's attitudes toward mathematics, and eventually led to math anxiety. 4. These days children may learn mathematics privately and unofficially out of school through private math institutes or private math teachers. Sometimes they do it reluctantly by their parents requests or more worse forcible demands. We found that such forced learning of children may seriously weaken independent attitudes of math learning and led to a cause of math anxiety.