Comparative Analysis of the Impact of Mathematics Teaching Anxiety on Service and PreService Teacher Teaching Experience

This study examines comparative analysis of the impact of mathematics teaching anxiety on service and pre-service teacher teaching experience. The study made use of simple random sampling For the study, four hundred (400) pre-service teachers were selected from Federal College of Education (Special) Oyo and Emmanuel Alayande College of Education Oyo. Among the pre-service teachers two hundred and seventy-five (275) were males and one hundred and twenty-five (125) were females. Two hundred (200) practice teachers out of which one hundred and seventy (170) were male and thirty (30) were female randomly selected across thirty secondary schools withinOyo metropolis. The instrument used was Mathematics Teaching Anxiety Scale (MTAS) by Akinsola (2004) with r=0.92.The data were analyzed using t-test, appropriate recommendations were given basedon the findings of the study, it was recommended that mathematics practice and pre-service teachers should employ and adopt Mathematics teaching strategies that can alleviate the persistence mathematics anxiety.