The Learning Difficulties and Game Remediation in Solving Quadratic Equations of Grade 9 Students in Lacag National High School (LNHS), Daraga, Albay

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Learning Mathematics has been customarily inculcated among learners as difficult that is many students are not interested. Thus, Mathematics is an important subject in the secondary curriculum. Every sector of the society recognizes the great contribution and importance of this discipline to the progress and development of the modern world. To shift students' perspective about Mathematics, the researcher aimed at creating games that promote fun, learning, and exciting.

METHODS

This study utilized an experimental method that determined the effects of games as interventions to the learning difficulties in the pretest of quadratic equations. As an experimental method, this utilized the pretest and posttest design. A pretest was administered to the control and experimental group before the treatment and after the treatment, a post-test was conducted to both groups. This allowed the researcher to make inferences on the effect of the interventions by looking at the difference in the pretest and posttest results.

RESULTS

The results reveal low mastery in factoring and no mastery in completing the square and use of quadratic formula. The performance levels in the posttest of the students under the control group is near mastery in factoring while low mastery in completing the square and use of quadratic formula while in the experimental group, the performance level is mastery in factoring while near mastery in the use of quadratic formula and low mastery in completing the square. The tests of difference between the performance of the control and experimental groups in both pretest and posttest show that the computed values are higher than the tabular value of t at 0.05 level of significance which is 1.6924 thus there is a significant difference between the performance of the control and experimental groups in pretest and posttest.

DISCUSSIONS

Teachers in the lower grades especially those in Grades 7 and 8 may include in teaching Mathematics some concepts in quadratic equation that students may learn. They may integrate concepts in quadratic equation in their lesson plans so to prepare the students for the topic. More activities may be provided in teaching quadratic equation particularly in the topic completing the square to improve mastery of Grade 9 students.