Mathematics Education

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Impact of mathematics classroom management on student's achievement
(2014) Kawar, Karna Bahadur; Laxmi Narayan Yadav
This study focuses on classroom management and its' impact on student's mathematics achievement in grade X of Rukum District of Nepal. In particular, this study attempts to examine the physical resources management and discipline management in mathematics classroom. This study was intended to accomplish the following objectives:-  To identify the physical and disciplinary problems of mathematics classroom management.  To find the problems of classroom management and its impacts on student's achievement (or mathematics learning) This study tries to explain the existing situation of physical resources, problems created due to the facilities in the school, disciplinary problems in the students and impact of disciplinary problems in mathematics learning. This is a case study approach and related to mathematics classroom management and it's impact on students achievement. Observation form for the researcher and unstructured interview schedule for students, mathematics teachers, head teachers, SMC presidents and parents were used to collect primary data from the two community (public) schools of Rukum District. The study is concerned to the physical resources, facilities, classroom condition and disciplinary problems in mathematics classroom. It also tries to explore their impact in mathematics achievement. The study shows that the condition of classroom was not good in not well managed schools. There was no use of sufficient teaching materials, clean drinking water etc. Due to the student's absence in their class, carelessness in preparing the next day lesson, making unnecessary noise, highly affects in their mathematics learning. Those physical and disciplinary problems were found to be influential factors on learning and achievement of students. The analysis of data concluded that the achievement of students in mathematics is better in school with well physical and disciplined than not well physical and disciplined ones.
Effectiveness of instructional materials in teaching mensuration
(2016) Luhar, Tejendra; Lok Nath Bhattarai
iv The purpose of present study was to find out the effectiveness of the instruction materials in teaching mensuration at lower secondary level. The researcher selected just one school for his research purpose, it was shree Saraswati Secondary school, Kanchanpur district. The research was carried out for period of 14 days. The design of the research was experimental in nature with sample of 44 students of grade VIII. The quantitative data derived from pre- post test on experimental and control groups were analyzed applying t-test. The experimental group was taught by using different instructional materials and control group was without using instructional materials. Pre test was administered before the experimental started. The experimental runs for the duration of 14 days. After 14 days a post test was administered on both groups and the mean scores was calculated. The difference in mean achievement score are tested by using t- test at 0.05 level of significance. Finally, the researcher concluded that the achievement of students of experimental group is better than the achievement of control group. The result showed that there is significant difference in achievement of experimental group over control group while using of instructional materials in teaching of mensuration at lower secondary level.
A relation betweem home environment and mathematics achievement
(2014) Paudel, Netra prasad; Raj Kumar Niraula 2014
This study was intended to find “A Relation Between Home Environment and Mathematics Achievement” of the students studying at secondary level. It also intended to answer the following questions: • Does the achievement affect the facilities provided at home? • Does the achievement affect due to different family structures? • Does parent’s high expectations imply to their children’s high mathematics achievement? For the study, through the purposive sampling, 50 Janjati families and their children were chosen from Sankhuwasava district. The primary data were obtained by the survey form and questionnaires and the secondary data were obtained from the corresponding schools of the children. To analyze and interpretation of the data the researcher found following results: • The availability of the facilities at home were not sufficient. • The family structure does not affect the children’s mathematics achievement. • Most of the families were found medium sized. • Family structure did not seem to have effects on mathematics achievement. • Certainly, the parental expectations were depending upon the parents' education and social economic status of the family. Average family expected to support their children to get SLC level education. • Parental expectation had positive relationship with the mathematics achievement of their children.
Factors influencing students' high performance in mathematics
(2014) Singh,Satya Narayan; Arjun Neupane
The purpose of this study was to identify and understand factors influencing the high performance of students in mathematics. The research questions guiding this study were to find the factors which contribute to better performance in mathematics and to examine the role of parents and teachers for student's high performance in mathematics. This study sought to understand the factors that shaped the participants’ decision to persist and succeed in mathematics. This study employed interpretive case study methodology in which interview data from six high-achieving students from public schools were collected, transcribed and analyzed. To draw the conclusion from the case study a comparison was made with the six average performing students collecting date and analyzing them by applying same methods and procedures. The study employed elements mainly from family and school environment for analysis. High achieving and average achieving students were determined on the basis of mathematics score of final exam of immediately previous class. Findings indicate that parent's educational level, satisfaction of the student with teacher's teaching style and active participation in classroom learning have excellent effect on student's high performance in mathematics. Further, parent's guidance & counseling, parent's financial condition and regular attendance in classroom have moderate effect on performance of students in mathematics. And, motivation from parents, parent's expectation, teacher's expectation and motivation in school also contribute in student's high performance in mathematics but not in great scale.
Imapact of home environment mathematics learning achievement
(2014) Khojwar, Sita Devi; Eka Ratna Acharya
This is a case study related to the “Impact of Home Environment on Mathematics Learning Achievement in Magar Students of Basic School Level at Jaubari VDC of Nawalparasi District.” The objective of this study was to identify the major factors and causes involved in the home environment of Magar students which impact their mathematics learning achievement. This study was qualitative and descriptive in nature. The study was conducted with the sample size of ten Magar students among them 5 from grade IV and 5 from grade V selected from the Shree Udaya Secondary School Bhadauri, Nawalparasi. This case study has been organized into five chapters. The first chapter gives the introductory information of the study. The second chapter, mainly the review of related literature deals with empirical, theoretical and conceptual understanding of the study. The third chapter includes design of the study, selection of school, respondents, tools for research, data collection procedure, data analysis and interpretation of the data. The fourth chapter deals with the analysis and interpretation of the collected data were acquired from the parents, school administration, students and teachers with the help of interview and class observation. The fifth chapter deals the analysis and interpretation of the collected data according to design an attempts has been made to summarize and enlist the findings, providing some recommendation for pedagogical purpose. This study carried out with the tools class observation with teacher, interview with selected students, their parents, mathematics teacher and focus group discussion with selected parents of the students. The Magar students are socially, economically, educationally backward. Their learning achievement is very low in mathematics. The major factors involved in home environment were the parent's education, parent's occupation, family size, household workload, homework checking. Therefore Magar students were affected by their home environment to gain knowledge in mathematics. Mathematics learning achievement of basic school level students was found greatly affected by the home environment. Thus home environment plays the important role by achieving good education. Mathematics learning achievement of basic school level students was found greatly affected by the home environment.
Relationship between beliefs and achievements in mathematics
(2014) Joshi, Bhim Kant; Bed Prasad Dhakal
This is a survey study aimed to find out relationship between beliefs and achievement of mathematics. This study also compares such beliefs by gender, location and structure of schools to investigate the relationship between beliefs and achievements in mathematics. A total of 200 students' from Kailali district were the participants of the study. Of the 200 students' 90 were males, 110 were females; 100 were from public school and 100 were from private school; 100 from urban area and 100 from rural area. The main instruments used in the survey were a set of opponnaire with 40 statements. This opponnaire was composed of five point likert scale items. The scores 5, 4,3,2,1 were given in the favor of SA, A, N, D, SD respectively for positive statement. Similarly, the scoring process was reversed for negative statement. The total score of each statement of MBO was computed and they were compared with the moderate score. If the total score exceeded to moderate score, then it was concluded that statement yielded positive belief and this evaluation technique was reversed for negative statement. At the end, the t-test was used to test significant difference between belief and achievement score by gender, structure of school, and location of school. The relationship between beliefs and achievement was also tested by computing Pearson's correlation coefficient. This research yielded that the students of grade X have positive beliefs about mathematics, male and female showed similar beliefs toward mathematics. Public and private school students showed similar beliefs and the beliefs do not differ by location of school.. There existed positive and moderate relationship between students beliefs and achievement in mathematics.
Causes of failure in mathematics at higher secondary level
(2014) Khadaka, Madan Singh; Bed Prasad Dhakal
This is a case study and qualitative in nature related to causes of failure in Mathematics. The objective of this study was to identify causes of failure in Mathematics at Mahendra Higher Secondary School, Dadeldhura. A total of 12 students of grade XII of mathematics of Mahendra Higher Secondary School, Dadeldhura were the participants of the study. Among 12 students all were boys. The instruments used in the study were interview and observation. Two separate interviews for students and teacher were used on the basis of guideline prepared on the theme school environment, home environment, students related variables and teacher related variables. Class observation was used during teaching learning activities. The observation mainly focused on school environment, teaching learning process. After collecting information from interview and observation, common results were categorized and then data were analyzed. The findings of study show that the school has sufficient physical facilities. The causing variables related to home environment were parents' occupation, parents' level of schooling, parents' support, household work and mathematics study at home. There was no proper interaction between students to each other and also teacher and students. The causing variable related to school environment were class environment and class work. Similarly the causing variables related to students' were poor high school base, poor language skills and vagueness about long-range goals.
Effect of reinforcement in Mathematic achivement
(2014) Timalsena, Anju Sharma; Abatar Subedi
Mathematic is the most useful subject in our daily life. So, it is taught at every level up to secondary level as compulsory subject. From S.L.C result it has been seen that most of the students failed in mathematics. The researcher has tried to find out the effect of reinforcement in mathematic achievement at primary level. This is an experimental research entitled Effect of Reinforcement in Mathematics Achievement.The objective of the study were ‘to compare the achievement of the students taught by using reinforcement and without using reinforcement in mathematics’ and to analyze the behaviors of students in learning mathematics at classroom. A pretest, posttest, non-equivalent group design was adopted to fulfill the objective of the study. For this, two school were selected by convenience sampling method from Dhading district, which were similar in terms of achievement and socio-economic status. Both the experimental and control group were taught by researcher herself for 23 days by using and without using reinforcement respectively. Researcher taught the selected units of mathematics text book of grade three prescribed by government of Nepal. Student’s behavior was observed by the researcher during the experimentation. After this, an achievement test was administered on the both group. The result of test was analyzed by using t-test at 0.05 level of significance difference. It is found that the mean achievement score of the students taught by using reinforcement is better than the mean achievement score of the students taught by without using reinforcement. From the observation, it is concluded that almost of the students taught by using reinforcement were very competitive, active, regular, concentrative and laborious.
Error analysis of grade x students in solving mensuration problems
(2013) Ghimire, Salikram; Hari Prasad Upadhayay
This study was carried out to answer the research questions what type of errors do students commit in solving problems of mensuration? And what are the causes of errors in solving problems? The design of research is mixed method using and Newman's criteria for error analysis as a theoretical basis of study. All secondary schools students of Kavre district studying in academic year 2070 constituted population of study. One government school and one private school were selected randomly. One hundred students of these two schools were taken to constitute sample for written test. A mini-sample of 20 students was selected for interview. Written test and interview schedule were used for the tools. Written test consists 10 questions of mensuration section from grade X textbook. Reliability of test was evaluated by piloting upon 40 students in New Rising School, Rayale of grade X and was found to be 0.91. Validity was constructed by critical judgment of supervisor. The data collected from answer sheets were analyzed by comparing frequency of students (with percentages) under different errors and on the whole. Data obtained from interview were analyzed qualitatively by interpreting causes of errors made on answer sheets of written test. Of all the students on the average one fifth made either process skill or transformation errors. One tenth students made reading errors. Comprehension errors were made because of lack of proper understanding of geometric terminologies and less skill to use formula of mensuration. Transformation errors were made because of insufficient knowledge of definitions and less skill to transform sentences into mathematical form. Students made careless errors because they want to work too quickly, they felt bored and fatigue. Students made many other errors because of their week foundation.
Factors affecting Mathematics achivement of student at secondary level
(2015) Lamichhae, Bhola Nath; Krishna Prasad Adhikari
This study focuses on the “Factors Affecting Mathematics Achievement of Students’ at Secondary Level.” This is a survey type study that attempts to describe the achievement of Mathematics and to analyze the factors that affects the achievement of students. Six public schools were selected randomly from all public schools of Parbat district. One set of achievement test was administrated to find out the achievement level of students of selected grade of selected school. And one set of opinionnaire scale was prepared and distributed to the students to find out the effect of teaching learning process, home environment, social variable, time variable, school environment and error in problem solving in students’ achievement. Unstructured interviews were taken with the mathematics teacher from respective sample school concerning towards these factors. Related literature, mathematical tools which are related to this study have been used to interpret and made reflection over the analyzed information. Student’s t- Value and χ2-value were used to interpret the result. This study shows that the achievement of mathematics is very low in. The main factors that affects in achievement in mathematics are parents economic condition, parents’ education, prior knowledge, different error made by students in solving mathematical problems, peer groups, school environment, teaching learning process, drill and practice.
Relevance of knowledge of real analysis in mathematics instruction at secondary level
(2025) Chhettri, Dev Bahadur; Bishnu Khanal
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Mathematical modeling of the impact of yoga on communicable disease transmission dynamics
(2025) Bhatta, Raghubir; Dinesh Panthi
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Mathematics achivement of fifth grader in Myagdi, District
(2016) Baral, Lok Nath; Rudra Chalise
The study of design is survey design. The prime concern of this study was to find out the difference on the students achievement in mathematics of grade five. To obtain the goal researcher made Null hypothesis and subject to the empirical verification. The researcher develops achievement test for grade five according to mathematics curriculum. In order to finalize the tools, pilot study of the test was conducted. There were altogether 66 items for pilot test. After the pilot test the researcher analyzes it, then, the researcher conduct the final test. In the final test the researcher asks 50 test items and they were given sixty minute time. An achievement test was administered to 120 students of the school included in the sample from the urban and rural areas of government school of Myagdi District. The two tailed Z-test of 0.05 level of significance was applied in order to ascertain the difference among the schools statistically and found that there is a significance difference in the achievement between urban and rural students.
Girls participation in optional mathematics in Chitwan district
(2015) Neupane, Pratima; Krishna Prasad Adhikari
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Problem faced by mathematics teachers in teaching mathematics at secondary level
(2024) Shrestha, Sabina; Ram Chandra Ghimire
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Problems faced by Tharu children in mathematics classroom
(2015) Ghimire, Bishwas; Krishna Prasad Adhikari
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Law cost (dalit) student's achivement in mathematics from private and government school in Morang District
(2017) Dangal, Chuda Mani; Rajkumar Niroula
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Pedagogical practice of Mathematics teachers at lower secondary level
(2015) Mahat, Rajendra; Raj Kumar Niraula
There are some studies done regarding the teaching learning behavior of mathematics teachers in diverse students' group. So, this study was conducted to find out the real situation of mathematics classroom, explore mathematics teachers’management skill of diverse student’s class and recognize the learning needs and real status of diverse students in Lower Secondary Level. Its topic was 'Pedagogical Practices of Mathematics Teachers at Lower Secondary Level'. This study had 3 objectives and these objectives were broken down in to 5 parts as research question. To achieve the desired objectives, this study was delimited into Sankhuwashava district from which five schools were selected as sample by using purposive sampling. The contents;genders, mental and ethnic diversity of students were delimited for this study. The sampled schools were Shree Rameshowr HSS., Mamling-6,Shree Saraswati HSS., Chainpur-10, Shree Sharada HSS., Chainpur-16,Shree Sharada LSS., Mamling-2 and Shree Lower Secondary School (Rukminibhawan), Aankhibhuin-2. by using purposive sampling. 5/5 students per each school or in total 25 students, were also selected among 642 students by using purposive sampling and 6 lower secondary level math teachers were selected among 27 mathematics teachers from respective sampled schools. Interview, questionnaire and class observation were conducted to collect essential data. These were obtained from primary and secondary sources. The obtained data were analyzed mostly with qualitative method and losley quantitative method. After analyzing the obtained data;major findings are put in three groups in accordance to the objectives.So the pedagogical practices of math teacher were not fruitful. Hence, major recommendations are given to all level.
Parent’s mathematics literacy and mathematics achievement of their children
(2015) Dhungana, Dilli Ram; Binod Dhakal
The study entitled with “parent’s mathematics literacy and their children achievement in mathematics” is intended to find out the relation between parent’s mathematics literacy and their children achievement of grade VIII students. To fulfill the objectives of this study, the researcher had taken primary data for parent’s mathematics literacy, student’s achievement and parents supporting score. The score was taken from the questionnaire. For achievement test a set of multiple choice questions was prepared. In the same way parent’s mathematics literacy score was taken by both multiple choice question and subjective question and also parents upporting questionnaire by yes or no form. For the design of survey research six different schools were select randomly from two different V.D.C.s The total sample students were 60 and their 60 parents for such the 10 student’s were select randomly from each sample school and their parents. The parent’s mathematics literacy score and mathematics achievement test score of student were divided into six different groups according to the division way of literacy score of parent’s. This score was compared by using the Karl Pearson correlation and parent's supporting variable score was analyzed by percentage and mean score. The coefficient of correlation showed that there was relation between mathematics achievement score of students and their parent’s mathematics literacy score. Also the parent’s literacy and their support to their child is more significant relation than others. Hence it is found that the mathematics score of students is affected by parent’s athematics literacy and their supports.
Secondary level mathematics students' off-task behaviour in classroom
(2015) Baral, Puspa Lata; Sarala Luital
This study is a survey related to the “Secondary Level Mathematics students’ off-task classroom behavior in Sindhuli district".The objectives’ of this study were to identify the major off-task behavior in the classroom, their causes, reaction of teacher towards student’s behaviors and difficulties for teaching and learning. This study was descriptive in nature. The study was conducted with the sample of ten mathematics teachers and all gradeI X students (450) from two strata (rural and urban areas) in Sindhuli district. The four tools that were used to solve this problem were behavior checklist, observation form, interview and focus group discussion. Face to face interviews were taken with mathematics teachers and head teachers. There were many reasons for students exhibiting off-task behavior i.e. lack of basic knowledge, no interest in mathematics, large class size, family background and social skill.

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