teachers that can implement the mathematics education curricula. Teachers, parents and government frowned at the low level of achievement of students in secondary school mathematics, they unanimously agreed that the results so far do not commensurate with the huge investment made in the sector.
Aremu and Sokan (2003) mentioned earlier, identified the factors responsible for this abysmal performance as motivational orientation, teacher are poorly motivated, emotional problems, such as phobia has contributed immensely to the problem at hand, phobia is an impediment to the learning of anything at all, self esteem self, efficiency, study habits on the part of students, the Researcher’s personal observation shows that today’s students have taken to music and live in world of noise, reading culture almost eroded. Teacher’s consultations are among the factors highlighted by these scholars. Another study, Bolaji (2005), in his study of influence of students attitude towards mathematics, identified teachers method of teaching and his personality as responsible for students negative or positive attitudes towards mathematics. Teachers planning of lessons should take care of choice of appropriate teaching materials and appropriate teaching methods, intensive research on the topic to be taught. The national mathematical centre Abuja on their own part discovered that rather than blaming the cause of failure in mathematics on the contents of curricula, teachers’ method of teaching should rather be blamed. The centre recommended that there should be new improved method of teaching mathematics, students in the other hand cannot be exonerated from being responsible for low performances in mathematics, there poor reading culture accounts to a very great extent this abysmal failure, as the old Chinese adage says, thing I hear, I forget, things I see , I remember, but things I do, I know, this adage can be likened to mathematics teaching and learning, it is not enough to sit in the class, listening attentively, watch the teacher manipulate mathematics, students should sit down and do mathematics, practice, they say, makes perfect.
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