CAUSES OF POOR PERFORMANCE IN MATHEMATICS AMONG PUBLIC SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS IN BOSSO LOCAL GOVERMENT AREA MINNA,NIGER STATE.

Abstract

This study investigated the Causes of Poor Performance in Mathematics among Public Senior Secondary Schools in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State. The study determines to find out from the students and teachers, the causes of poor performance of senior secondary school students in mathematics. Descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population of the study include all SS2 mathematics students and teachers (target population) in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State. Simple random sampling technique was used to select three secondary schools used for the study and also 75 SS2 mathematics students and 10 mathematics teachers from public senior secondary schools in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State were used for the study. The instrument of data collection was a structured survey questionnaire and statistical package for social science (SPSS) was used to analyse the data collected. Frequency and percentage were used to analyse the data. The study hence showed that all the factors identified are actually responsible for poor performance of students in Mathematics. The recommendation made was that frequent inter-school competition in mathematics should be organized by state government with prizes to be awarded to the winner; parents should be enlightened on the importance of their involvement in the education of their children and its attendant benefit in the performance of students.