To study the factors affecting learning mathematics of middle school children of Herat City

Pages: 79-83
Fahima Jamiulahmadi and Catherine Nazaryan (Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Herat University, Herat, Afghanistan)

The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors affecting learning mathematics of middle school children of Herat City. The study was to help the schoolteachers and scholars of the major to teach in effective ways and make the students learn in deep for permanent. A descriptive and survey method used for the study to explain the factors affecting the dependent variable. The statistical population was including three categories: 1. university professors, 2. Schoolteachers, 3. senior students of bachelor in science. Cochran sampling formula used to determine the sample size. The sample size was 346 participants in total, 218 schoolteachers, 108 senior students, and 20 university professors. The study found that there are various factors affecting learning mathematics such as teaching methods, curriculum, teachers, students, etc. The research also found that learning mathematics is a multidimensional process in which there is a need to coordinate all together. If one of the dimensions is distracted then the entire learning process is distracted.

Keywords: learning mathematics, curriculum, teachers, teaching material, teaching methods, middle school