The Status of the Performance of Grade VI Pupils in Solving MAthematical Fractions Utilizing the Multimedia Classroom

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Teachers as members of a profession, extend the whole series of their professional endeavor by the way of expressing tutorial leadership, and good teaching behavior. In this modern age, teaching pupils become so complex and painstaking on the part of the teachers such that they should demonstrate versatility in using appropriate strategy applied in instruction with the aim in view of encouraging learners to learn and understand better.The researcher became interested in assessing the performance of pupils in solving fractions in Mathematics instruction, hence the number of years of her experience as a Math teacher she had continuously encountered the same level of difficulty of in teaching said activity specifically in its addition, subtraction, multiplication and division and so with fractions. It is at this juncture that she manifested interest in assessing the status of pupils' performance in Mathematics utilizing a multi-media classroom. Likewise, identify the advantages and disadvantages earned in utilizing the process.

METHODS

This study utilized an experimental method of research with a researcher-made test utilized in the pre-test and post-test. Only one section of the grade six pupil was used in the conduct of this research work. This set of pupils was composed of 37 individuals who were used as the subject of the study. This group of pupils was given pre-test and post-test activities. The statistical treatment was t-test of the difference between two independent means.

RESULTS

It was revealed by the results of the computation made, that a highly significant difference was obtained between the scores found in the pre-test as against the scores obtained in the post-test. The results disclosed a computed t of 11.19, meaning that probability value which was 1.96 at .01 level of confidence, was very much less than the computed t, thus yielding an interpretation of Highly Significant.

DISCUSSIONS

Results revealed that there is a noticeable improvement in the performance level of pupils was seen in the post-test and this could be brought about by the utilization of a multi-media classroom in teaching. It highly motivates the pupils' interest in learning which contributes to the attainment of better performance in Math.