Students’ Attitude Toward Mathematics And Relationship to Exam Anxiety(Case:male and female high school students of governmental high schools of the city of Isfahan)

Students have interpretations and attitudes toward school materials.these attitudes play an important role in their pedagogic performance.The purpose of the present paper are:a) measuring of the Attitudes Toward Mathematics, B) Measuring of the Exam Anxiety, C) Relationship between Attitude Toward Math and Exam Anxiety.
This study is survey research and the research instrument contain two part:1) Mathematics Attitudes Scale (MAS, Aiken, 1985, 2005) which contains 28 items and four subscales (Enjoyment, Important, Motivation and Fear) .2) Questionnaire of the Exam Anxiety of the course (Abulghasemi et al, 1375). The subjects were 200students (100 boys and 100girls) which were randomly selected with multistage sampling from the secondary years of Isfhan High schools of Science and Humanities masors. The result showed significant relationship between each of these subscales as well as attitudes toward Mathematics course with its exam anxiety(-0/365).Level of the Attitudes Toward Mathematics and Exam Anxiety were evaluded in the middle.The results also showed that there were not a significant difference between the Attitude Toward Mathematics and Exam Anxiety of the male with female also between the Science and Humanities.