Israeli post-primariy teacher`s attitudes towards teaching mathematics

Attitudes of teachers towards teaching mathematics and the anxiety that accompanies mathematics teaching are well known in the literature as important factors that influence pupils’ attitude towards mathematics and their mathematical achievement. It is important to note that most of the research done in this subject has examined the attitudes of teachers and students in primary schools. The purpose of this study is to investigate the attitude towards teaching mathematics of mathematics teachers in post primary schools in Israel.The research was conducted in 2021 in Israel. The participants are 221 mathematics teachers from post primary schools. The research instrument was a questionnaire developed for this study based on the scientific literature and aimed to find out teachers’ attitudes towards teaching mathematics and applications of Mathematics in other disciplines. The results show that majority of the teachers have high level of positive attitudes towards teaching mathematics, but there are also teachers whose attitudes need to be developed. Teachers with little experience and young age feel more anxiety in teaching mathematics. As well as teachers that feel anxiety have less support and less innovation in teaching mathematics. It is surprising that there are no correlations and connections between anxiety and confident and enjoyment in teaching mathematics.