Abstract

The purpose of the study was to investigate the secondary level students’ learning difficulties in mathematics in the areas of Geometry, Arithmetic and Algebra. All math teachers and students of public secondary schools of nine towns of Lahore was the population of this study. The sample of 60 mathematics teachers and 300 students was selected through simple random sampling. Researcher adapted two questionnaires with 21 items each, one for the teachers and other for the students with reliability values 0.966 and 0.941 respectively. Findings of the study revealed that teachers highlight students as feeling difficulty in learning Geometry, Arithmetic and Algebra. Similarly, students also pointed out that they face difficulty in learning Geometry, Arithmetic and Algebra.