17 FEAR IN MATHEMATICS TEACHING AMONG PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS Original scientifc paper Sead Resic 1 , Maid Omerovic 2 , Ahmed Palic 2 1 Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina 2 Faculty of Education, University of Travnik, Bosnia and Herzegovina Received: 2021/2/3 Accepted: 2021/3/27 ABSTRACT The aim of this work is toresearch does exist a fear of mathematics, what are the causes of fear of mathematics, in what forms fear is manifested and what parents do to repress a fear of mathematics at students in higher grades of elementary school. For the purposes of the research, two separate scales were created which measured the fear of mathematics at students from the perspective of parents and students. The research was conducted in the elementary schools in Central Bosnia with students of ffth, sixth, seventh, eighth and ninth grades. We leave the survey questionnaire at the end, in attachment, so that it can be viewed. Analysis or data processing we worked and we got results which we´ve presented in this work. There shouldn´t be fear in the teaching process.Students shouldn´t come to school under pressure or in fear, but should fnd ways to motivate themselves to work because of their personal progress and training for life. Parents and teachers help them with that. Achievements in mathematics are researched more than achievements in other subjects because mathematics is important for researching and comparing different educational systems.Because of this importance, we need to fnd ways to repress the students ’fear of math.Students, except motivation for working, should give encouragement and support. Communication with the child, and communication in the parent-school-student relationship is very important in repressing the child’s fear. Keywords: fear, mathematics (math), student, elementary school Correspondence to: Sead Resic, Department of Mathematics, Faculty of Science, University of Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina Univerzitetska 4, 75000 Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina Phone:+387 61 101 230 E-mail: sresic@hotmail.com INTRODUCTION Mathematics is not just a school subject, it is our daily habit that we face every day, so it is very important how students will accept mathematics as a school subject. Today, mathematics is taught to students in primary and secondary schools, as well as at numerous faculties. We will base our research on mathematics as a school subject in primary school. When they remember mathematics from primary school, some students remember with discomfort, and individuals blush, their palms sweat, their hearts beat faster. They wonder why all these feelings, because they do not need a lot of teaching materials that they learned during primary school in the continuation of life. Other students have different thoughts and think that mathematics is an understandable and useful science.Students in the school are not even aware that mathematics has always been and will be one of the most important subjects. Why? Because success in this society largely depends on the ability to professionally use mathematical actions and skills. Applying math is everyday from winding up a lesson that reminds us of going to school, to work to compiling a family budget based on monthly income. & INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN REHABILITATION TEACH LEARN Human Research in Rehabilitation , 2021, 11(1): 17–27 BY NC CC DOI: 10.21554/hrr.042103 ISSN 2232-996X/ISSN 2232-9935