International Journal of Education and Management Studies

Catherine Nazaryan ¹, Fahima Jamiulahmadi ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Herat University, Herat, AF

Abstract

The mental illness is a disorder which appears with behavioral manifestations and significant discomfort and dysfunction caused by a biological perturbation, social, physical and genetics and other related issues. We are living in a country that most of the people have witnessed war for more than four dictates, therefore people has been suffering lots of problems in different aspects of their lives. One of which is mental disorders, the government of Afghanistan and the international organizations have revealed that most of the citizens in this country are facing mental health problems. The statistical report shows that mental health issues among Afghans are increasing day by day. The purpose of this study is to reveal the impacts of parent's mental illness on their children's math learning at primary schools in Herat city. The study was conducted from 30 elementary schools which are located in different districts in Herat city, it is a selective method, and the study is conducted on 450 students whose are dealing with mental health issues. To obtain information on their math learning status, their grades in subject were obtained from the department. There are a lot of factors which impact on their learning; the main factor which we focused was their parent's mental illness, which we pretend to be effective on the math learning. The result of the study indicates that there was significant difference between the scores of those parents are mentally well and those who are having mental illness, it also shows that those families which were high populated and low populated had significant difference.

Keywords

Mental Illness, Math Learning, Schools, Herat Province.

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Fahima Jamiulahmadi ¹, Catherine Nazaryan ¹

Affiliations
1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Education, Herat University, Herat, AF

Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the factors affecting learning mathematics of middle school children of Herat City. The study was to help the schoolteachers and scholars of the major to teach in effective ways and make the students learn in deep for permanent. A descriptive and survey method used for the study to explain the factors affecting the dependent variable. The statistical population was including three categories: 1. university professors, 2. Schoolteachers, 3. senior students of bachelor in science. Cochran sampling formula used to determine the sample size. The sample size was 346 participants in total, 218 schoolteachers, 108 senior students, and 20 university professors. The study found that there are various factors affecting learning mathematics such as teaching methods, curriculum, teachers, students, etc. The research also found that learning mathematics is a multidimensional process in which there is a need to coordinate all together. If one of the dimensions is distracted then the entire learning process is distracted.

Keywords

Learning Mathematics, Curriculum, Teachers, Teaching Material, Teaching Methods, Middle School.

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