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69 www.wjir.org  Abstract— This paper surveys students beliefs on the nature of mathematics as to whether it is the cause of their poor performance in mathematics at the secondary school level in Madagali local Government area of Adamawa State. The population consists of 1,062 public senior secondary students in Madagali L. G. A. of Adamawa State. One hundred and thirty senior students were randomly sampled and used for the study. The instruments used for this study was a questionnaire tagged students opinion questionnaire (SOQ) and students third term examination results. The instrument was validated and pilot tested with reliability coefficient of 0.73. One research question and a hypothesis were formulated and tested at 0.05. Data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation for research question and hypothesis was tested using Pearson’s r statistic. Result revealed that student’s poor performance in mathematics was as a result of their poor perception of the nature of mathematics. Based on the findings, it was recommended among others that, teachers should endeavour to use the available methods or ways of simplifying problems to the understanding of the students. To that extent, teachers should relate abstract ideas or concepts to real life activities.

Beliefs About The Nature of Mathematics, As A Subject on Senior Secondary School Student,s Academic Performance in Madagali L. G. A., Adamawa State