Effectiveness of Strategical Intervention Materials in Improving Pupils' Performance on Mathematical Problem Solving in Grade 4 of Ovidio S. Dela Rosa Elementary School S.Y. 2018-2019

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This paper aims to find out if the SIM (Strategical Intervention Material) would help the 40 selected pupils in increasing their academic performance in Mathematics focusing on problem solving. The researchers used an experimental as a method in gathering data. The participants were divided into two groups. The experimental group is composing of 20 and 20 in the controlled group. The research found out those pupils from the experimental group performed well than in the controlled group base on their post test result. It shows that using SIMs are effective aid in the performance of the pupils. Furthermore, it was recommended that SIM be adopted as instructional material or strategy in teaching Mathematics or other subject.

METHODS

The experimental method was utilized in this research to show the importance of Strategical Intervention Material (SIM) in teaching problem solving in Mathematics and how does it helps to increase the performance of the pupils. The target population of the study is composed of 40 selected pupils in Grade 4 of Ovidio S. dela Rosa Elementary School S.Y. 2018-2019. Obtaining of information or data includes giving of pre and post-test to selected pupils and compare their result. The selected pupils were chosen because of their convenient accessibility and proximity to the researchers.

RESULTS

Pupils in the experimental learned better than the pupils in the control group as indicated by higher mean. Further, the exposure of pupils in the experimental group by the strategic intervention material given has helped them master the lesson better than the pupils in the control group. Moreover, this result supports the view that the use of learning strategy contributes to higher pupils' academic achievement. Further, the findings of Iqbal (2004) supports the idea above that the use of learning strategy is more effective as teaching learning technique than traditional method.

DISCUSSIONS

Understanding concepts in Math is one of the difficult processes for pupil to perform. They need more exposure for them to understand concepts and using this Strategical Intervention Material will help them to have a better understanding about problem solving in Mathematics. The study reveals the importance of Strategical Intervention Material (SIM) in teaching Problem solving on math and how useful this SIM in increasing the academic performance of pupils.