Published 2015
“…Background: Homework plays a major role in education system.There are a lot of researches about mathematics homework and mathematics achievement.However, these studies were showing instability in findings, especially time spending on mathematics homework and availability of
reference books towards mathematics achievement. Descriptive analysis was applied and Pearson correlation coefficient was used to determine relationships between the factors.Objective: The aims of this research were to determine the amount of time spend to do mathematics homework weekly, the level of availability of
reference books to do mathematics homework and to identify relationships between time spending on mathematics homework and
availability of
reference books towards mathematics achievement.Results: In Sabah state, findings revealed that 58% of the students spent more than 1 hour weekly to do their mathematics homework compared to 42% students spent less than 1 hour weekly.Besides that, 60% of the students were having enough
references books to do mathematics homework and 40% of students do not have enough
references books to do their mathematics homework.Research findings showed a positive moderate relationship with achievement in two aspects: (1) time spending in Mathematics
Homework; (2) availability of
reference books to do mathematics homework.Conclusion: The research findings implied that teachers should not burden students with too much of homework but need to assign tasks based on
reference books that they
have and consider about students capabilities while assigning quality mathematics homework.…”
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