Lack of Confidence of the Humss Students to their Mathematical Proficiency and its Effect to their Daily School Performance
Keywords:
Lack of confidence, mathematical proficiency, school performanceAbstract
INTRODUCTION
Nowadays, many students have different views toward mathematics as a subject. Most of them dislike mathematics due to their lack of confidence on solving mathematical equations. This caught the attention of the researchers and has served as the driving force for them to find out if the lack of confidence of HUMSS students has an effect on their daily school performance and garner possible solution to lessen or totally eradicate the problem.
METHODS
This study utilized a descriptive research method. The researchers conducted the study at Talisay Senior High school by handing out survey questionnaires to Grade 11 and grade 12 HUMSS students with a total of 242 students. Slovin's formula was employed to compute for the size of the sample from the total population. The researchers used a simple random sampling technique in choosing their respondents which has a total of 151.
RESULTS
According to all the data gathered, there is a significant effect between lack of confidence to the mathematical proficiency and daily school performance of HUMSS students. Students tend to have a lower level of class participation because of this dilemma. It leads to poor academic performance in the subject area and steals the chance of coping with the daily lessons.
DISCUSSIONS
The result of this study shows that there was a significant relationship between lack of confidence and mathematical proficiency in the daily school performance of the HUMSS students. It affects their attitude towards their outlook on mathematics. Most of them perceived the said subject as their rival or as a topic that is not interesting which leads to failure in getting good academic standing. In addition to these, the researchers found that if students have low confidence and mathematical proficiency it would defeat the purpose of learning in mathematics which may result in failing their daily school performance.
