The Use of Key Strategies in Answering Mathematics Questions for Grade III Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Education plays a role in the advancement of society. It is a fact that education is a very effective tool for societal transformation. It is therefore imperative that before aspiring for economic development, human resources should be developed first. To do this, educational institutions are needed and one of this is Labac Elementary School, an institution of learning, whose objectives as stated in its academic vision and mission statement is to develop an integral human formation. With the school’s ongoing process of curriculum development which the school has undertaken over the years, the researcher has decided to conduct this research entitled "The Use of Key Strategies in Answering Mathematics Questions for Grade III Pupils."

METHODS

The study adopted an experimental design format with the Grade 3 pupils in the elementary who will be utilized as experimental and control groups respectively. The control group will be exposed to the traditional approach where pupils learn by using their own schedule. The descriptive-comparison approach will be the basic pattern to be employed. The control group and the experimental group will be separately described on the basis of the results of the pre-test, post-test, and their feedback to a similar schedule in which they are subjected.

RESULTS

The computed t-values of 3.551 and 2.266 respectively showed that they are greater than the tabular value of 2.014, thus evidence was laid down to reject the null hypothesis stating that "there is no significant difference between the pre-test and post-test result of the control and experimental groups.” Therefore, there is a significant difference between the pre-test and post-test performances of the control and experimental group.

DISCUSSIONS

The result of the research showed that there is a significant difference between the pre and post-test performances of the control group and the experimental group. The findings provide proof that the use of key strategies is effective in answering Mathematics questions for Grade III pupils. Thus, it formalizes the need to adopt the use of key strategies even in other subjects for grade schools.