Mathematics Education

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Browsing Mathematics Education by Subject "Achievements"

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    Factor Affecting the Girls’ Achievement in Geometry (in Syangja District)
    (Faculty of Education, 2011) Paudel, Bhagabati
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    Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Mathematics Achievement on Gandharva Students in Kaski District
    (Faculty of Education, 2011) Adhikari, Upendra
    The prime concern of this study was to explore the "Impact of Socio-Economic Status on Mathematics Achievement on Gandharva Students". An achievement test paper were the main instrument including parent questionnaire form and students questionnaire form for the study. The sample of study included 15 students out of them 6 boys and 9 were girls from Gandharva community from three government Schools of Kaski district. To collect the data for this study the researcher developed the test consisting of 54 multiple choice items on the basis of the prescribed textbook of mathematics of grade nine. To maintain validity and reliability of the test the researcher use item analysis. For this the researcher administrated achievement test paper with 25 students of Shree Bhoomeshwor Secondary School, Dhital - 4, Kaski. By obtaining P-value and D-value of the items, 9 items were rejected and remaining 45 items were accepted for the final form. The achievement test was administrated in grade ten students at the beginning of session to find out the achievement level of students. The time given for achievement test was one and half hour, one mark was given for one right answer. The mean, standard deviation, correlation tools were used for analysis of data. The following results were found. a. The mean score of children of educated, literate and illiterate fathers are 29.25, 22.00 and 18.50 respectively. The mean score of children of educated father is higher than that of literate and illiterate. And the mean score of literate is higher than illiterate father. b. The mean score of children of job holder, trade and agricultural father are 23.14, 22.25 and 23.5 respectively. The mean score of agricultural children is higher than that of trade and Job holder's children. And the mean score of job holders father's children is higher than that of trade. c. The mean score of small size, middle size and large size family children are 24.75, 23.77 and 16.00 respectively. The means score of children of small size is higher than that of middle size and large size family and the mean score of middle size family's children is higher than that of large size family children. d. The mean score of children from high, middle and low family income are 22.33, 25.11 and 17.33 respectively. The mean score of middle family incomes children is higher than high and low family income. e. The mean score of boys and girls of Gandharva children are 25.83 and 21.11 respectively. The mean score of boys is higher than the mean score of girls. f. Mathematics achievement of students were found to be associated with the father's education and positively correlated with family income but negatively correlated with father's occupation and family size. g. Family education was positively correlated with father's occupation and family income but negatively correlated with family size. h. The variable father occupation was low positively correlated with family income and negatively correlated with family size. And family size was negatively correlated with family income. i. Mathematics achievement of boys was strongly positively associated with father's education. But mathematics achievement of boys was negatively associated with father's occupation, family size and family income. j. Mathematics achievement of girls was strongly correlated with father's education, and family income but negatively correlated with father's occupation and family size. k. The variable father education of boys was negatively correlated with father's occupation and family income, zero correlated with family size. Also of girls was positively correlated with father occupation and family income but negatively correlated with family size. l. The variable father's occupation of boys was positively correlated with family income and negatively correlated with family size. And that of girls was zero correlated with family size and family income. m. The variable family size of boys was negatively correlated with family income and also that of girls.
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    A Study on Attitude of Gurung Students Towards Mathematics in Secondary Level and it's Relationship with their Achievement
    (Faculty of Education, 2011) Sapkota, Purushottam
    The prime concern of this study is to declare "A study on the attitude of Gurung students towards mathematics and it's relationship with their achievement". The following objectives were formulated for this study: • To find the attitude of Gurung students towards mathematics in secondary level. • To compare attitude and achievement of Gurung students in mathematics in secondary level. • To determine the relationship between attitude and achievement of Gurug students towards mathematics in secondary level. For this study the researcher had selected eight schools of Kaski district by using stratified random sampling. On this study, the researcher had taken the sample schools from four election region of Kaski district. Two schools were selected from each election region by simple random sampling method. From election region first, second, third, and fourth 58, 100, 27, 67 students were selected respectively from sampled schools by simple random sampling method . Altogether, there were 58+100+27+67 = 252 sample Gurung students who were reading in class 9 and 10. To fulfill the objectives of this study the required primary data are collected through the questionnaire developed by George Levine (1971 AD.) There were 32 statements with comprised four aspects of mathematics such as i) Views about mathematics teaching ii) Attitudes toward mathematics as a process iii) Attitudes about difficulty of learning mathematics. iv) Attitude towards the place of mathematics in society. The attitude of students providing five categories of rating scale are as strongly Agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree and Strongly disagree. The rating score for the positive statements were 5, 4, 3, 4, 1 in favour of Strongly Agree, Agree Undecided, Disagree, Strongly Disagree respectively. Similarly for each negative statements score 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 were given in favour of strongly agree, Agree, Undecided, Disagree, Strongly disagree respectively. For achievement score of the Gurung students in mathematics researcher, used their annual exam report 2067BS of respective schools. The percentage, mean, standard deviation, and correlation co-efficient were used as statistical tools for the analysis and interpretation of the data. The researcher used t-test at 0.05 level of significance to compare attitudes and achievement of Gurung students towards mathematics as well as to determine relationship between attitude and achievement score of Gurung students towards mathematics. The following conclusions were found in this study as follows. 1) Gurung students have positive attitudes towards mathematics at secondary level. 2) There is significant differences between attitudes and achievement of Gurung students towards mathematics in secondary level. There is no relation between Gurung students' attitudes and achievement towards mathematics in secondary level