Project BIBBO (Building it Up Before Breaking it Up)

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The Mean Percentage Score of 39.417 on the previous result of the Second Periodic Examination for Grade One indicates that pupils at this level did not attain the proficiency level of 75%. This project theorizes that just as children need to practice reading a lot and become fluent readers, math learners need to become fluent in basic operations before they can perform multiple methods of solving problems and can arrive at deep conceptual understanding.

After some thorough assessment methods, two groups of difficulties were identified -13 non-numerate learners and 18 struggling Math learners. The team decided to choose those non-numerates who need more help. The project was then named as "Project BIBBO" which stands for "Building It up, Before Breaking it Out". As the acronym says, the name was originated from its Mother Tongue translation "bibo" which means "marunong o magaling" or on the other hand a word that describes a person who is active, quick and smart. This project aims to provide non-numerate and struggling pupils intensive continuous instructions to learn basic addition and subtraction facts, let them have mastery, and gradually let them go out of intensive care to perform more complicated tasks.

METHODS

To make it effective, the authors follow the Continuous Improvement Methodology of the Philippines-Australia Human Resource and Organizational Development Facility (PAHRODF) which was introduced to us by the Department of Education, Division of Lipa. continually asses, analyze and act the performance improvement of key process focusing on both costumer desired performance.

The following shows the Continuous Improvement Methodology and the steps that we ought to undertake. Stage 1: Assess Stage

Stage 2: Analyze Stage Stage 3: Act Stage

RESULTS

Pretest result got the average mean score of 1.046 on the five early math skills introduced by the project and post result gain the average mean score of 4.248 on the other hand.

DISCUSSIONS

After at least six months of project implementation, these pupils display a great improvement as seen from their pretest and posttest results of the different early math skills such as counting, conceptualizing, reading and writing numbers, and additional processes. Evident progress in the academic performance of the struggling learners was seen