The social and cultural factors which are effective on the 8'th grade elementary school students' achievement in mathematics lesson

Purpose of the this study is to determine social and cultural condition of the 8?th grade elementary school students and elucidate that the influences of this factor?s on the student?s academic achievement in math lessons.For this study, firstly academic resources have been scrutinized than some detailed information has been presented about the importance of the mathematic education, curriculum and the relation between education and socio-cultural structure of the society.Population of the research is 8?Th grade students who are educating in the schools of state in province of Malatya. Representatives are selected via stratified sampling method and applied a personal information form which has been developed by researcher. SPSS 13.00 Statistic packet program and the other appropriate techniques have been used for analyzing data.Research and analyzes indicate that some socio-cultural factors which about parents of the education, jobs, monthly income, dweller, preferring high school by students, preferring levels of the education ,TV watching frequency, frequency of the reading, private lessons, environment of study and ideal?s about futures are affective on achievement of the students in math.However, the others factors like that, alive of parents, sibling count, waste time activity, aim of computer using, parents assistance in math and frequency of meeting between parent and teachers are not so effective on achievement of the students in math.