The investigation level of hopelesness about mathematics course of secondary school senior students

Up to now, many people have been anxious about and biased towards mathematics. Mathematics needed in all aspects of life appears as a course throughout our education life. Mathematics, which gains more and more value especially in important exams applied in our country, constitutes a serious problem and creates a desperate situation for students preparing for the exams. It is of great importance to improve and contribute to the studies that prevent increased levels of hopelessness against mathematics and develop solutions for this problem. The purpose of this study is to examine the despair levels of secondary school senior students in the central districts of Van province in terms of some demographic changes. The research consists of 219 students randomly selected from the students studying in the last year of certain secondary education institutions in the central districts of Van province. The adapted type of "Beck Hopelessness Scale" to mathematics and demographic information form were used to determine the hopelessness levels of the participants for the mathematics cFor the analysis of the form data to be applied to the participants; frequency charts, t-test and one-way variant analysis (ANOVA) were used. On condition of finding a significant difference between the groups by ANOVA, the Scheffe-Multiple test was used to figure out among which groups the difference occurred. Based on the results obtained from the analyzes, secondary school senior students were presented with views on mathematics, mathematics learning, mathematics hopelessness levels, fear, anxiety or prejudies about mathematics, and mathematics teaching.