Examining Correlates of Math Anxiety among Single-Sex and Co-Educational Schools in Nigeria

Oladipo King

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Oladipo King

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Single-sex; Co-educational; Math Anxiety; South-western

Abstract

A global view of Mathematics as a subject reveals that it is widely recognized as a problem area and most students have phobia for it. In view of this, the present study examined correlates of math anxiety among single-sex and co-educational schools in Nigeria. The study adopted an ex-post facto descriptive survey research design, and a total of 450 participants were randomly sampled for the study; 153 (34%) males and 297 (66%) females with their ages ranging between 16years and 24years. Mean age was 16.2years (SD = 1.8).Validated self-reported measures were used for data collection and three hypotheses were tested in the study. Gender correlated significantly negatively (p

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Examining Correlates of Math Anxiety among Single-Sex and Co-Educational Schools in Nigeria. (2012). Global Journal of Human-Social Science, 12(E10), 55-63. https://socialscienceresearch.org/index.php/GJHSS/article/view/516

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