Effect of Chalk-Board mathematical set on students’ Performance in Further Mathematics in some secondary School in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria.

Abstract

The study investigated the effects of chalk-board mathematical set as an instructional material on the performance of students in further mathematics in senior secondary school in the sampled area. Two secondary schools in Bosso Local Government Area in Niger State were sampled. In Educational setting, most secondary school teachers teach through lecture method, the finding shows that secondary school students perform poorly in most subjects (especially further mathematics which could be associated with the method of teaching the subject). This study confirms the suggestions of some educationist that teaching students with educational materials will arouse the interest of students and will improve teaching and learning in all classrooms. This study adopted the pretest experimental control group design. The sample population was made up of one hundred and twenty (120) senior secondary school class Two (SS2) randomly selected in two different secondary schools in Bosso Local Government Area of Niger State, Nigeria. Pretest and post-test question were administered to both groups and scores based on a hundred percent (100%). The result is evidently shown in the in the highest post-test mean score of 56.4 of experimental group compared to the control group means score of 50.2. One hypothesis was tested at =0.05 level of significance. Data collected were based on pretest of the descriptive statistics via: Mean, Standard Deviation and t-test to arrive at the result in the study.