Primary school student's attitudes towards mathematics lesson and achivement motivation levels

The purpose of this research is to investigate primary school students? attitudes towards mathematics lessons, relationship between attitudes towards mathematics and gender, educational level of the students? parents, class level, , the relationship between their achievement motivations and gender, educational level of parents and the class level.The research was conducted with 9 public primary schools and on 846 students in mentioned schools. The schools included in the sample were selected by the stratified sampling method as to high, intermediate, low level achievements according to level Determination Exam which is applied by the Ministry of Education.The data were gathered by the ?Attitudes Towards Mathematics Scale? developed by Nazlıçiçek and Ertkin(2002) and by the ?Achievement Motivation Scale? developed by Açıkgöz and Ellez (2004).In order to anaylize the obtained data, Arithmetic Mean, Standard Deviation, Frequency, Percentage, t-Test, Analysis of Variance, Scheffée Test, LSD Test and the Test of Significance of the Difference Between the Percentages were used.According to the search results, it was detected that primary school students? attitudes towards mathematics lessons is different considerably from gender, educational level of students? parents and the class level.It has been observed that achievement motivations of the primary school students differ from father?s educational level. On the other hand , it was detected that it does not differ considerably from mother?s educational level.