Improving Proficiency Level in Finding Greatest Common Factor (GCF) of Fifth Grade Pupils of Bon-ot Elementary School through My Booklet of Exercises

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

Learners do not learn with the equal pace of learning mathematical concepts like finding GCF because multiplication proficiency is a pre-requisite skill. With this, the teacher performs a crucial role in addressing this classroom problem. The spiral feature of the new curriculum together to allow the learners to master the competency, inspires the teachers of Cluster 8 to craft a learning intervention in the form of a module as a response to the problem. The module is termed as "My Booklet of Exercises".

METHODS

The purposive sampling design was used and employed from the item analysis results on the first quarter examinations, the competencies were identified at least learned: reducing fractions to lowest terms and identifying equivalent fractions. These competencies have one pre-requisite skill. That is finding GCF. Hence, the researchers sought to determine the proficiency level of the pupils by way of conducting summative assessment needs analysis. The test questions focused on giving GCF of two or more numbers using the following methods, namely: listing, continuous division, and factor tree. My booklet of Exercises was crafted as an intervention tool featuring activation of the basic multiplication facts with various exercises that cater to the needs of the participants, especially on the pre-requisite skill.

RESULTS

The highly recurred factors affecting the inability of the research participants to master the learning competency were the insufficiency of GCF exercises (16) and poor multiplication skills (13) as disclosed by the participants. Indeed, insufficient knowledge of multiplication strongly affects the ability of the pupils to find the GCF of certain numbers. The intervention entitled "My Booklet of Exercises" brought improvement on the level of proficiency in finding GCF among 31 recipients of the intervention. Their summative assessment after intervention scores revealed that seven were classified "Satisfactory", nine were categorized in the "Very Satisfactory" level, and 13 were considered "Outstanding".

DISCUSSIONS

The findings suggest that My Booklet of Exercises intervention can calibrate skills of learners with learning deficiency on Finding the Greatest Common Factors as manifested by the improvement on the levels of their proficiency after the administration of the intervention. For the improvement of the study, it is proposed that the module will be used as an intervention to other groups of pupils and assess its impact on them.