Causes of Low Enrollment of Girls Student in Optional Mathematics at Secondary Level in Parsa District

Abstract

The study entitled "Causes of Low Enrollment of Girls Students in Optional Mathematics" is a case of study that attempts to indentify the causes of low enrollment of girls students in optional mathematics at secondary level. The main objective of this study was to analyze the causes of low enrollment of girls students in optional mathematics and to explore the remedial ways of low enrollment of girls students in optional mathematics. The study was qualitative design in case study approach. Shree Babulal Hansbahini Secondary School was the study site of my study. 15 students were taken as key respondent and purposive sampling methods was using for collecting the data. To achieve the objective interview, focus group discussion and classroom observation were used as research tools. Firstly, I visited the sample school, consult with Head teacher, subject teacher of the school , clarify them about the objective of the study and took permission for classroom observation , interview and focus group discussion. After that studied previous research deeply and linked the collected data with theories by triangulation way. From the analysis of data it was found that teaching without contextualization, rote learning, fearful environment of classroom, lack of confidence and practices without understanding were the main causes of low enrollment of students in optional mathematics. And further it was found that the ways to minimize low enrollment were: Making teaching learning activities interesting and lively, understand the mathematical concept rather than memorizing, making our mathematics education culturally relevant and contextualized.