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Effect Of Inquiry Teaching Method On Students’ Achievement
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Inquiry teaching method was chosen in this study due to its
scientific nature and it is student- centered and it involved all
scientific process (Sola &Ojo 2007).
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEM
Since
there are numerous factors that aided the poor academic performance of
the students’ in mathematics both at the junior and secondary school
levels in internal and external examinations year by year. Table 2 below
gives the performance of the student below 50% as given by the WAEC
chief examiner reports of 2007-2014. Apart from the fact that secondary
school students exhibit non-challant attitude toward mathematics, this
problem of mass failure could be due to abstract symbolism of the
subjects. The researcher also observes that students have problem with
using numbers for alphabets. A mathematics teacher should therefore
learn to put in place strategies and activities that would arose and
sustain the interest of students in mathematics.
1.3 PURPOSE OF THE STUDY
The objectives of this study are to:
Aim
Determine
the effects of inquiry teaching method and traditional/conventional
teaching method on the performance of students taught algebra in senior
secondary schools in Ogun State
Objectives
• Determine the effects of inquiry teaching method on the performance of students in algebra in Ogun State;
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Determine the effects of inquiry teaching method on the performance of
male and female students taught algebra in Ogun State.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY
The findings of this study will help in the following ways:
· It will help the mathematics teachers to utilize the findings of this study in their mathematics classrooms;
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