Factors affecting mathematics achievement of Hindu and Muslim students

Abstract

The objectives of the study entitled‘Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievements of Hindu and Muslim Students in mathematics ‘were to find out the factors that affecting mathematics achievements of Hindu culture based and Muslim culture based Students and to identify the strategies taken by school in improving mathematics achievements of Hindu culture base and Muslim culture based students. This study has focused on multiple factors and it seffecton mathematics result. To meet these objectives teacher,parents and students were chosen as respondent. Achievement test, survey, observation and interview were used to collect date and information.This study adopted the quasi that is mixed nature.The duration of the field study in Hindu culture based and Muslim culture based community and school was one month. For this study the researcher selected fifty Hindu and fifty Muslim students of ten schools.Ten Lower secondary schools were selected randomly from all Lower secondary schools of Saptari District including rural and urban area. To compare Hindu cultures and Muslim cultures students’ achievement of urban and rural mathematics students, marks lager was used as the means of secondary data.These students were selected as the study, for the analysis of the data, the mean, standard deviation and two tailed, t-test were used as statistical tool for analysis of data at 0.05 level of significance.It is also found that there is different in mathematics achievements of Hindu culture based and Muslim culture based students of Grade VIII. The researcher concluded that personal factor,gender, prior knowledge, Attendance, Motivation,environments factors,social factors, culture factors were affecting factors for Hindu and Muslim students in Mathematics achievements.