Table 3 The upper-secondary school students’ reasons for choosing or rejecting mathematics
Advanced mathematics | Basic mathematics | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Reason categories | Choosing | Rejecting | Choosing | Rejecting | ||||||||
Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | Female | Male | Total | |
Usefulness | 216 | 143 | 359 | 42 | 16 | 58 | 23 | 12 | 35 | 133 | 98 | 231 |
Enjoyment, interest | 67 | 52 | 119 | 127 | 4 | 131 | 39 | 3 | 42 | 53 | 21 | 74 |
Logistics | 13 | 2 | 15 | 12 | 4 | 16 | 13 | 2 | 15 | 14 | 17 | 31 |
Self-efficacy, ability, competence | 32 | 22 | 54 | 93 | 45 | 138 | 79 | 32 | 111 | 45 | 40 | 85 |
Advice, teaching, other | 12 | 13 | 25 | 5 | 13 | 18 | 12 | 11 | 23 | 10 | 11 | 21 |
Total | 340 | 232 | 572 | 279 | 82 | 361 | 166 | 60 | 226 | 255 | 187 | 442 |