Effectiveness of Inductive Method in Teaching Geometry at Secondary Level

Abstract

Mathematics takes important place and usages in different ways in human life. So, it is Necessary to learn and teach in systematic way at schools level mathematics. Among various Teaching methods here, the present study concentrated on measuring the effectiveness of Inductive method in teaching geometry at secondary level. This study was based on the Following objectives are, (i) to explore the effectiveness of inductive methods in teaching Geometry at secondary level students, (ii) to compare the achievement of the students in Teaching geometry taught by inductive method with achievement of the students taught by Deductive method. For the data collection, one government school were selected purposively and pretest, Posttest, non-equivalent group experimental design was used to conduct this study. 18 students Were selected in group 'a' as a experimental group and 18 students were selected in group 'b' as A control group according as their pretest result. Experimental and control groups were assigned By tossing a coin. Two groups were taught same topic "geometry" experimental group was Taught by using inductive method and control group was taught by deductive method of teaching. After completing the experiment both groups were administered a post- mathematics Achievement test. Teaching modules and achievement test were the main intervention instrument and tools Respectively for the study and mean, standard deviation; variance and t- test (at 0.05 level of Significant) were used as statistical tools for the study. After analyzing the obtained data, it was Concluded that result of the study. Inductive method of teaching had better achievement than that Of the deductive method of teaching