Behavior and Interest Level of Elementary Pupils in Mathematics and their Relationship to Academic Performance: Basis for Lesson Exemplar

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The study investigated the attitude and interest level of intermediate pupils in mathematics and its relation to the academic performance of Carlos S. Batino Sr. Memorial Elementary School, Kaybagal Central, Tagaytay City for SY 2016-2017. Specifically, the study sought to answer the following questions:

1. What is the behavior of the pupils toward Mathematics?

2. What is the interest level of pupils?

3. What is the academic performance of pupils?

4. How significant are the relationships of the following?

4.1.behavior of pupils in Mathematics and academic performance in Mathematics;

4.2. Interest level in Mathematics and academic performance in Mathematics5.What lesson can be proposed to improve the Mathematics performance of intermediate pupils?

METHODS

The researcher employed the descriptive method. The following are the questionnaires used:1.Pupil's Behavior Questionnaire -It included the pupil's behavior towards Mathematics. The researcher requested the respondents to express in a five-point scale the extent of agreement or disagreement to each of the items.2.Pupil's Interest Questionnaire –This questionnaire captured the pupils' interest in Math. There are the lists of items which tell the interest of pupils in Mathematics.3.District Inventory/Achievement Test in Mathematics -This was made by the district key teachers in Mathematics. The 75-item test was based on the contents and objectives of Basic Education CurriculumThe following statistical tests were used in testing the research hypothesis: weighted mean, mean and standard deviation, and Pearson’s r.

RESULTS

Majority of the pupils achieved satisfactory achievement in Mathematics. The higher number of pupil's achievement fall with more than one half of the respondents or 65 percent. Observation showed that Mathematics is doing quite good in this school, for the school year 2016 -2017. The test of correlation between academic performance and attitude reveal that it has a moderately high correlation. The information that answers the problem cited is presented, the r-value of is .529. This is found significant at .05 level; hence, the null hypothesisis rejected; since the computed r - value is higher than its critical value at .05 level. The academic performance is low or slight correlation with the interest of pupils towards Mathematics with a computed -r of .278 and the null hypothesis is accepted.

DISCUSSIONS

Findings show that the behavior influenced the academic performance in Mathematics of grade V and VI pupils.