Improving the Performance Level in Numeracy of Grade 8-Patience Using Differentiated Activities

Abstract

Introduction

Mathematics is something other than the art of numbers instructed by the educators in school, and either appreciated or dreaded by numerous understudies. It assumes a tremendous job in the lives of people and society in general. Mathematics is a first-order perceived around the world, and it should be increased in training to outfit understudies with abilities essential for accomplishing advanced education, vocation desires, and for achieving personal satisfaction. Numeracy is the capacity to reason and to apply basic numerical ideas. Essential numerical aptitudes comprise of grasping basic math like expansion, subtraction, increase, and division. It supplements education and is some of the time called mathematical proficiency. It is being numerate methods having the option to work with numbers and other numerical ideas and to apply these in a scope of settings and to take care of an assortment of issues. This study focused on improving the performance level in numeracy of Grade 8-Patience using differentiated activities.

Methods

This action research employed mean, frequency, and the percentage, which yielded the following results. It was found out that after exposing the students to differentiated activities such as peer tutorial, math games, puzzles, and the use of varied instructional materials that helped them perform basic operations on numbers, decimals and fractions, the performance of the Grade 8-Patience in numeracy was improved from 6 or 18.75% number of numerates to 32 or 100% numerates.

Results

Moreover, the use of differentiated activities as a strategy to increase the number of numerates was effective as indicated by the mean of 86.31 as compared to 56.28 before using the strategy which was found out to be significant using the t-test at .05 level of significance. This strategy also improved students' level of participation, which is a manifestation of their interest in mathematics.

Discussions

It is highly recommended that differentiated activities shall be adopted by the Mathematics teachers as an effective strategy to increase the number of numerates. Likewise, the administrators may consider conducting a LAC session that would intensify the use of differentiated activities to sustain the numeracy level of students.