ABSTRACT The research was a survey designed to investigate the effect of sex and environment on mathematics achievement of senior secondary school students in Katsina state. Two research objectives and six-research hypotheses were formulated. Stratified random samplinq technique was employed in which four hundred and twenty (420) students were sampled.
ABSTRACT Demands for technical and scientific expertise in many countries including Namibia made the Namibian government emphasise the need for effective teaching of mathematics and science in schools to enable learners to excel in these subjects. Despite that, school failure at Grade 10 level remains a challenge in Namibia. Learners continue to perform poorly, especially in mathematics over the past years. One intriguing manifestation of this record of performance is that there are some lear...
ABSTRACT This study was purported to compare the learning cycle approach which is based on the constructivist theory to the traditional approach on senior secondary school students' understanding of selected concepts in direct current electricity. Two intact science classes from two of the six senior secondary schools offering physics as elective in the New Juaben Municipality were randomly sampled using the computer generated random numbers to participate in the study. In all 101 students pa...
ABSTRACT Many students in our Colleges of Education have not been exposed to explore MS Excel in solving mathematical problems. The aim of this study was, therefore, set out to explore the various ways for teaching and learning Probability, using the MS Office Excel software programme. The study has explored how tutors and students can use MS Excel to solve problems in probability. The researcher integrated both qualitative (interviews and observation instruments) and quantitative methodologi...
ABSTRACT This study explores the factors that advance the expository techniques of teaching and learning in mathematics. The study was conducted in Shama Senior High School in the Shama District of the Western Region of Ghana which had a final-year student population of 726. The descriptive survey research method design was employed, where a simple random sampling technique selected 10 teachers and 280 students for the study. Two expository research models namely, mathematics teacher‟s que...
ABSTRACT The study focused on comparing the efficiency of the Decomposition (conventional method) and Base Complement Addition (non-conventional method) using two randomized groups of pupils. The comparison was done on measures of speed, accuracy and retention. In all, sixty pupils (thirty from each school) were selected from St. Peter’s and Jesus Cares Preparatory Schools at Dunkwa Offin in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality in the Central Region of Ghana. The researcher used simple rand...
ABSTRACT This study explored the effect of ICT integration in teaching Mathematics on students’ motivation and achievement in endowed and less endowed Senior High Schools (SHSs) in the Gomoa West district of the central region. The study employed the embedded mixed method approach involving quasi-experimental design in which three SHSs (one endowed and two less endowed) were purposively selected and assigned as control and experimental groups. A sample of 120 students and 4 Mathematics te...
ABSTRACT The study investigated the impact and the importance of the use of circle diagrams in the application of circle theorems towards geometry instructions. This study sought to find out what type of instructional approach mathematics teachers use in delivering the concept of circle theorems in mathematics classrooms. Also to find out perceptions students hold towards the learning of circle theorems in geometry. The study also sought to look at the extent diagrams can be used to improve ...
ABSTRACT Academic performance of students in mathematics is challenged by several factors. The study aimed at finding out mathematics teachers’ perceptions on classroom assessment and practice at the Junior High Schools in Ghana. Descriptive survey design using questionnaire for teachers, students’ questionnaire, inspection of documents and interview of teachers were used to collect data. The respondents were 30 teachers and 20 students selected randomly from schools in Awutu-Senya d...
Abstract One of the key findings of Educational Effectiveness Research (EER) is the importance of the classroom level as a predictor of pupil outcomes. Research from developed countries has therefore centered on the classroom, and classroom processes as an important determinant of students' learning outcomes. Unfortunately, little of this strand of research has been conducted in sub-Saharan African countries, particularly in Ghana. This study is the first of its kind in Ghana, if not the e...