Quantitative Method in Research about the Relation of Student’s Attitude Forward Mathematics Teaching Learning with Mathematics

Mathematics is one of based science which has to commanded by student because mathematics can’t sparable from daily life. It always trought development which straight matchless with science and technology’s progress. More of student don’t aware of that situation because the information about what and how of mathematics in fact. Thus, it can be wrong result at student’s learning process. They only study mathematics with listen teacher’s explanation, know the formula, and then they are more exercise, but never work to understand and look for the fact meaning about purpose of teaching learning mathematics.

So far, the students have negative perception to mathematics as Frans Susilo said in his article of BASIS Magazine which the title is humanistic mathematics that negative attitude forward mathematics because of misunderstanding about mathematics. The negative perception of mathematics is opinion of student that :

1. learning mathematics need special talent

2. mathematics is computation science

3. mathematics use brain only

4. the most important of mathematics is true answer

5. the fact of mathematics is the absolute fact

Teaching learning process in the school, mathematics is one of subject which is taught with extent in every subject. From 5 negative perception that is explanation above result in the student anxiety forward learning mathematics. Examinations are prove that student’s attitude forward teaching learning process mathematics with anxiety mathematics’ student have significant relation.

One of the research result about it is the research about relation of student’s attitude with anxiety of mathematics at class of 5 elementary school Karang Tengah 6 and 7 Ciledug Tangerang. The examination method use quantitative method with use correlation examination. The subject for try out are 48 students and subject for research are 100 students. The measurement is used scale of attitude about mathematics teaching learning and scale of value about mathematics anxiety. Statistic method is used product moment correlation with statistic program SPSS version 11.0. The result of try out to 48 students elementary school in class of 5, scale of student’s attitude forward mathematics teaching learning get 22 statement from 36 statement with realibility coefficient is 0.85and scale of mathematics anxiety get 34 statement from 45 statement with realibility coefficient is 0.91.

The result of research indicate the significant negative correlation between student’s attitude forward mathematics teaching learning with anxiety of mathematics. The result of this research indicate that so much positive the student’s attitude forward teaching learning mathematics then so much low the scale of anxiety in learning mathematics, and so much low student’ attitude forward teaching learning mathematics then so much high the scale of anxiety in learning mathematics.