Investigation of mathematics anxieties and attitudes in university students: Çağ University sampling

In our country, people's anxiety and attitude towards mathematics lesson have been discussed for years. We also have been involved in many studies on this subject. The aim of the study was to examine the mathematics anxiety and attitudes of the students studying at the tertiary level in terms of gender, department and parental education status, whether there were negative experiences related to mathematics or not, if they did not like mathematics. In the 2017-2018 academic year, an investigation was made on the attitudes and anxities of the first year students of Çağ University, Faculty of Economics and Administrative Sciences towards mathematics lesson. In order to determine the attitudes of the students towards the mathematics lesson, mathematics scale was used on 269 first grade students to determine the students' attitudes towards mathematics and also the two dimensional math anxiety scale. Then, the data obtained by the measurement tools determined for the research were analyzed with SPSS 22.0 program. As a result of the analyzes, it was observed that students had a high level of anxiety and showed negative attitudes towards mathematics lesson. Particularly, the negative experiences experienced by students during the education period and the approach of the teachers in the mathematics lessons were effective in the formation of negative attitudes. This study examined the anxiety and attitudes of mathematics students at higher education level in terms of different variables. Considering these variables again, the same study can be applied to adults in working life.