High School Students’ Attitudes towards Mathematics and Factors Affect Their Attitudes in Turkey

The aim of this study was to examine the level of Turkish high school students’ attitudes towards mathematics and to determine the factors affecting their attitudes. Also, it was aimed to explore the relationship between the gender and geographical regions of students with their attitudes towards mathematics. The research performed using by the survey model was conducted on 30170 students from different types of high schools at 14 cities in seven geographic regions of Turkey. The mathematics attitude scale developed by researchers was administered to these high school students. The results indicated that Turkish high school students had attitudes toward mathematics at moderate level and students’ gender had no impact on their attitudes. However, there was a significant difference between students’ geographical regions and their mathematics attitudes