Background:
State of the literature: Mandler (1989), Mc Leod & Adams (1989) have shown that poor academic performance in mathematics is an emotional problem. Fennema & Sherman (1976, 1978), Whitley (1979), author (2012, 2013, 2014) have shown it to be attitudinal. These studies coincide in that mathematics anxiety has a negative effect on students. According to Akey (2006), there is a positive correlation between attitude and mathematics performance in students at the secondary level of education.

Materials and methods:
Our study sample was formed of one thousand students from the Centro de Estudios Tecnológicos Industrial y de Servicios No. 15 in Veracruz City. Statistics technique used was structural equation modeling.

Results:
The results of goodness of fit indices are meaningful when applied to students in High School Education, which indicates that the hypothetical model fits the theoretical model.

Conclusions:
Furthermore, the evidence obtained in this study contributes to predicting the reality describe by authors in regards to mathematics, while at the same time, giving light to redirect the questions in a way that gives rise to the search for new knowledge in a different environment to the one proposed by the authors.