PROBLEM STATEMENT...
Management is the process of designing
and maintaining an environment in which individuals, working together in
groups, efficiently accomplish selected goals. (Koontz & Weihrich, 2006).
This shows that management is a very important process for each and every
organization to apply in theirs. The terms organization can not only applied on
companies and associations. According to a blog named Mr Baker’s Math Class,
classroom can also be seen as an organization and a teacher is considered as
the manager. Teachers need to know the best way to manage the classroom in
order to attract students to listen and pay attention in class other than be
interested in the subjects being taught. It may seem like an easy job but it is
not. A list made by a website, www.careeroverview.com
and was posted on February 6th, 2011 stated that a public school
teacher was ranked 12th in the list of The 25 Most Difficult Jobs in
the World. It also described that one may not likely to lose their life to the
teaching job but probably lose some sanity.
According to the administrator of the toptens.com,
a list on Most Boring Subjects in School was made 6 years ago and has been
voted on over 1000 times since. Mathematics is placed as the Most Boring
Subjects in School followed by Spanish and Science. It is so boring that
actually chewed 3 gums to keep me awake for the worst 50 minutes of my daily
life in college (Anonymous, 2007). There are many
possible reasons for the attitudes. This might
have happen caused by the classroom management shown by their teachers. There have been several studies on math anxiety
(Ho, H., Senturk, D.,Lam, A., Zimmer, J., Hong, S., Okamoto, S., Nakazawa, Y., Wang, C.,2000; Ma 1999; Cates &
Rymer, 2003) that may have something to do with the classroom experience (Schefele & Csikszentmihalyi,
1995). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to determine whether classroom
management influence students’ satisfaction in Mathematics class.
