INTRODUCTION

Magoti (n.d.) said that learning is a progress, a gradual movement from level to level. There
are various disciplines of knowledge that is involved in the learning process that learners go
through in their course of learning through several subjects in which learners get equipped with
various knowledge and skills that depends on their specialization.

Mathematics is one of the disciplines that people studied all over the world. In this complex
society today, learning mathematics is necessary for the full development of an individual. Despite
of the importance and utility of mathematics to society, students perceive that it is a very difficult
subject to study, boring and can only be mastered by students who has special abilities to learn it
easily. Gokkusagi (2006) says in the course of their academic life, many pupils generate negative
standpoints and views towards mathematics. For most pupils the subject is not a source of
satisfaction, but rather it is a starting point of frustration, discouragement, anxiety and finds
mathematics to be just a tiresome chore.
Skemp (1986) put forward the idea that rote learning in mathematics causes children to
develop anxiety toward mathematics. Students generate negative attitudes towards mathematics
and loathe the subject by mismatch which occurs when the teacher teaches instrumentally and
students try to understand irrationally and when they become exposed to problem solving
situations children can no longer apply rote-learnt methods. In this context, many students start off
enjoying mathematics but as they get older, they became turned off in mathematics.

This study aims to know the overall percentage of Grade 11 students of Central Luzon Doctors
Hospital Educational Institution that dislike the subject Mathematics. This study also aims to
answer the following questions:

1. What are the reasons why students dislike Mathematics?

2. What are the other subjects that the students dislike aside from Mathematics?
3. Did the students tried skipping a Math class?
REFERENCES

Magoti, E. (n.d.). Why Most students dislike mathematics subject. Retrieved from
https://www.academia.edu/11421900/Why_Most_students_dislike_mathematics_subject
Gokkusagi (2006). Project paper on Creating interests in Mathematics. University of
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Skemp, R. (1986). Students attitudes towards Mathematics. 1 (12) University of
California.