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Slow learners are the object interested and studied by psychologists and educators at many angles and levels with many different subjects. Currently, at High Schools in Vietnam, slow learners in Mathematics always exist and account for a high proportion compared to other subjects. Because of that fact, learning the factors (or causes) and assessing the influence of the causes leading to poor performance in Mathematics of high school students are essential to overcome and improve performance. The article used methods of collection and analysis of data from the questionnaire survey for 105 teachers and 346 students at 8 High Schools in Vietnam. From the results of descriptive statistical analysis, it was shown that many causes are leading to poor performance in Mathematics including subjective and objective causes; in which the highest influence level comes from subjective causes - factors from individual students. Besides, the analysis results also show that in objective causes, the causes from teachers also have more influence than factors such as facilities, classes, schools, or social factors. Therefore, the learning and assessment of the influence of the causes leading to the poor performance in Mathematics of high school students is the best basis for teachers and management agencies to propose measures to help slow learners appropriately with the best effectiveness.