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CHAPTER 2
Name of Researchers:
Tolentino, Gilbert B.
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the building block for everything in our daily lives, including mobile devices,
architecture (ancient and modern), art, money, engineering and even sports.
However, majority of the students here in the Philippines are dislike Mathematics
Some of the reason for this may be that the aversive teaching style,
difficulty in remembering its equations and ways to solve problem. (Ibag, 2011)
According to Miranda (2016) the main reason why many Filipino students
tension, anxiety and even fear when engaging in Math, a phenomenon known as
calculations and mathematics that affects the ability to solve problems and
“Among the 51 students, 82% of students in their school said that they
do not like Mathematics, and among 24 students, 75% of students a belief that
difficult subject, 54% reported medium difficulty, and only 10% consider it as an
easy subject. Around 42% fail to identify the ways to solve problems provided in
their textbook. Even as 63% find it as boring and 58% of students fear
the ability of basic mathematics. It can not be denied that most of the prospective
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skills is needed in order to cope with the demand of life. Such demands include
being numerically literate, gaining tools for future employment, developing the
Mathematics is being main part of human lifestyle. In the world, each society
different countries like as American, Korean, Japanese, Arabian etc. But even
that, 70% of students in other country stay away from many careers related to
countries (Robertson, 2013) Poor school performance not only results in the child
having a low self-esteem, but also causes significant stress to the parents
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It has been a long time since Math is hated by most of the Filipino students.
They said that the four operations such as addition, subtraction, multiplication,
and division are more than enough, while other formulas are, what for? They
hated it extremely to the extent that until this time, where modernization is widely
experienced, modern teaching is then observed in many schools yet students still