Effectiveness of Collaborative Learning Strategy in Teaching Mathematics for Grade V Pupils

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

The research was designed to determine the Effectiveness of Collaborative Learning Strategy in Teaching Mathematics for Grade Five Pupils. The researcher sees the problem exists on pupil’s performance in Mathematics classes having negative attitudes towards it, poor understanding and comprehension. It also found out that it was below 75% levels of performance. The researchers opted to use Collaborative Learning Strategy in Teaching Mathematics wherein this research would test its effectiveness on the pupil's performance.

METHODS

The researcher used Experimental Method to find the Effectiveness of Collaborative Learning Strategy in Teaching Mathematics. A pretest before the exposure to collaborative learning strategy and posttest after the exposure consisting of a 50-item test. To find the significant difference between the pretest and posttest, the Mean and MPS were used.

RESULTS

The control group was taught using the traditional method. It can be deduced that learning occurred after the learning process as there was an appreciation in the mean score from 23.7 to 30.8and a number of skills mastered from 59.2 % to 77 %. The experimental group was exposed to a collaborative learning strategy. More gain was posted by pupils from 59.2% to 80.6%.

DISCUSSIONS

The performance of the pupils after the exposure has greatly improved than the group where the traditional method was employed.