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    CORRELATION BETWEEN MENTAL STRESS AND PERFORMANCE IN

    MATHEMATICS AMONG STUDENTS IN JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL

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    Background of the study
    Stress is how we react when we encounter a lot of task or under pressure that might be
    threatening. This is usually happens in a situation that we don’t feel we can manage or control.
    For example a responsibilities of a problem solving in mathematics that struggling to manage
    and solve. Stress can cause mental health problems or it becomes mental anxiety that leads the
    students to feel pressure in solving mathematics. According to the National Library of Medicine
    there are two main types of stress. Acute stress which is a short term stress that goes quickly and
    the chronic stress that lasts for longer period of time.
    According to N. Suren and M.A. Kandemir (2020) in their research mathematics anxiety,
    an emotional factor found in the literature why the students do not like the mathematics. (Shen,
    2009). Therefore overcoming mathematics anxiety that cause by the stress can lead for the
    students to like solving mathematical problems and important thing to grow the students. By
    understanding, recognizing, controlling and dealing with mathematics anxiety (Boaler, 2008).
    The students first reaction, they do not like mathematics as their thinking it is difficult course and
    it causes their stress in problem solving in mathematics.
    Mathematics anxiety that causes by the mental stress always start in elementary and
    secondary level. (E. Zakaria and N.M. Nordin, 2008) according to their surveyed students had
    their first negative experience in mathematics as early as grade 3 or 4. Therefore, this become the
    cause why the students feel that they don’t like mathematics up until their college life. (E.
    Zakaria and N.M. Nordin, 2008). Mathematical anxiety is an emotional reaction that has indirect
    effects with poor performance of the students in their studies. This also the sense of fear that the
    people feel when they faced with the need to perform task in their schools that daily need to
    complete. (Suren and M.A. Kandemir, 2020).
    Mathematics students can seriously hamper their performance by being nervous and
    insecure towards mathematics. And most of the mathematics teachers agree that the students who
    always react the mathematics is a difficult subject that cause their stress and become
    mathematics anxiety that affects their performance in school, and they will have negative
    learning in mathematics. (P. Mutodi and H. Ngirande, 2014). Therefore, the students will have
    negative reaction in mathematics that cause negative performance of the students.
    Mathematics education in the Philippines is one of the priority concerns of the
    Department of Education (DepEd). Mathematics and science content area are classified as the
    most difficult to understand by elementary and secondary grade level students. The Philippines
    has their priority in mathematics. (O. Imam, M. Abas, and H. Jamil, 2013). The quality of
    mathematics instruction os one of the issues in some countries including the Philippines. In fact,
    Pilipino students has their low performance in some discipline including mathematics that is
    annually conducted through National Achievement Test. (M. Dimasindel, 2015).
    This research, investigating to what extent affects the performance of the students by the
    mental stress of the students. Since, mathematics if on of the important thing in the Philippines.
    (M. Dimasindel, 2015). And the mental stress of the students in problem solving in mathematics
    to be recognize, control by the teachers in order for the students to prevent their stress in
    mathematics that causes mathematics anxiety with result of low performance of the students.

    Questionnaire
    1. What are the factors that causes mental stress of the students?
    2. Level of the performance of the students in mathematics.
    3. To what extent affects the performance of the students in mathematics by the mental
    stress?
    4. Is significant relationship between mental stress and the performance in mathematics?

    REFERENCES

    Suren N. and Kendemir M.A. (2020). The effect of mathematics anxiety and motivation on
    students’ mathematics achievement. International Journal of Education in Mathematics, Science
    and Technology.

    E. Zakaria and N.M. Nordin, (2008). The effect of Mathematics Anxiety on Matriculation
    Students as Related to Motivation and Achievement. Eurasia Journal of Mathematics, Science
    and Technology Education 2008.
    Paul Mutodi and Hlanganipai Ngirande (2014). Exploring Mathematics Anxiety: Mathematics
    Students’ Experiences. Mediterranean Journal of Social Sciences.

    Mobarac R. Dimasindel, (2015). Performance and Skills of Cotabato City’s Mathematics Pre-
    service Teachers in Problem Solving. Southeast Asian Mathematics Education Journal.

    O. Imam, M. Abas, and H. Jamil, (2013). Correlation between Reading Comprehension Skills
    and Students’ Performance in Mathematics. International Journal of Evaluation and Research in
    Education.

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