Research article

Improving the teaching and learning of Mathematics in secondary schools in Abia state using adequate statistical analysis

^*1Bassey Okpo Orie and ²Enogwe Samuel Ugochukwu

¹Department of Mathematics/Statistics, Federal Polytechnic, Nekede

²Department of Statistics, Michael Okpara University of Agriculture, Umudike

*Corresponding Author E-mail: obassey@fpno.edu.ng, basseyorielistic@gmail.com

Accepted 24, April, 2023

Abstract

There is common knowledge that the wealth and development of any nation cannot be separated from her educational policies and strategies especially at the primary and secondary levels, as these provide a strong foundation and basic skill that will propel the pupils/students to have strong affinity and total embrace of the subject. Mathematics being the Chief host of most of the disciplines, needs a pride of place in the decisions, strategies, policies and fundamental issues of enacting laws in the education sector so as to make teaching and learning of the subject easy. In this work, we will be conducting some experiments to ascertain if there will be a significant difference in performance of Mathematics students who were taught using the conventional/traditional method of teaching as against using the (i) modern instructional aids and materials (ii) motivational lectures before the test/examination (iii) Computer systems, computer packages and tutorials, A pre-test and two post-tests is conducted on a randomly selected 50 students (25 males and 25 female), fifty (50) objective questions covering most of the SS3 Mathematics curriculum will be administered during the Pre – test and Post – test, and the results will be analysed. The stakeholders, which comprises of, students, parents, teachers and policy-makers in education sector shall respond to well-constructed questionnaires which target is to ascertain if the attitude of the stakeholders towards teaching and learning does not significant affect students’ performance in Mathematics. We shall consider conducting a statistical test to ascertain if the secondary schools selected are not significantly consistent with each other over the introduction of the innovation in teaching. We expect that our findings shall be that the introduction of the new innovation as a method of teaching should improve the learning of Mathematics in our secondary schools.

Keywords: Mathematics, Secondary Schools, Statistical Analysis, Abia state