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Abstract. This research is quantitative research which aimed to know the effect of students- perception of mathematics on their learning outcomes. This study was carried out in SMP Muhammadiyah Terpadu in Bengkulu city from 22nd January to 22nd February 2019. The samples were taken using a simple random sampling method. Twenty-four students of Class VIII participated in this research. The collecting data used in this study was a questionnaire and learning outcomes tests. The questionnaire was used to determine students perceptions of mathematics while the learning achievement test was taken from the results of the students Final Semester Exams. Then, the data were processed using SPSS software. Based on the results of data analysis, it can be concluded that the correlation coefficient (r) was more than alpha (0.080> 0.05). Hence, H0 was rejected which means that there was a positive correlation between students perceptions of mathematics with mathematics learning outcomes.