Acceptability on the Use of “Mathstery” as a Learning Material in Enhancing the Students’ Retention for Junior High School

Abstract

The study aimed to determine the level of acceptability of “MATHSTERY” as a learning material in enhancing the students’ retention for junior high school proposed and presented by the researchers in the view of the Mathematics teachers from selected public secondary schools in the Division of Quezon City. This learning material will help the teachers to use new teaching styles in order for the students to learn Math in their leisure. The method utilized in the study was descriptive. According to Manuel and Medel (n.d), descriptive research involves the descriptive, analysis, interpretation of the present nature, and composition of processes of phenomena. The researchers employed a questionnaire with its rating scale, as well as the profiling, which the teacher respondents of this study accomplished upon data gathering and presentation of the learning material by the researchers. In terms of the gathered data from the profile of respondents, most of the respondents were female, most of the Mathematics teachers were married, and most of the teacher-respondents graduated with a Bachelor’s Degree with Master’s Degree units. The level of acceptability in terms of subject matter, quality, usefulness, appeal to the target user and originality were all found to be highly acceptable. It can also be concluded that there is no significant difference in the level of acceptability of the proposed “Mathstery” in terms of the teacher-respondents’ profile. Future researchers who may conduct similar studies are encouraged to create more educational games, which can be more beneficial to learners and can effectively facilitate learning.