Abstract: The purpose of this study was to investigate the gender-related differences in mathematics teaching anxiety. There were a total of 368 pre-service mathematics teachers, 199 middle and 169 high school pre-service mathematics teachers involved in this study. The researchers gave the participants a Likert-type questionnaire, the Mathematics Teaching Anxiety Scale (MATAS) that included 23 statements. After the collection of the data, the researchers used the independent samples t-test with in the analysis of the data. The study revealed that there was no statistically significant gender-related difference in mathematics teaching anxiety between pre-service male and female mathematics teachers, and that there was also no gender difference found in terms of mathematics teaching anxiety between pre-service male and female middle, and high school mathematics teachers.

Key words: Teaching Anxiety; Gender; Mathematics; Pre-service mathematics teachers