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EFFECT OF ACTIVITY, STUDENT, EXPERIMENT AND IMPROVISATION STRATEGY ON MATHEMATICS PERFORMANCE AMONG PRIMARY FIVE PUPILS IN SABON-GARI LOCAL GOVERNMENT AREA OF KADUNA STATE, NIGERIA

Iliyasu Adamu1, Yahuza Muhammed2 and Shehu Yau3

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Abstract This study looks into the Impact of ASEI Strategy onMathematics Performance among Primary Five Pupils in Sabon-Gari Local Government Area of Kaduna State. The study adopts quasi experimental design which involves pretest-posttest control group.Two research questions and two hypotheses guided the study. The study randomly selected 200 pupils (100 males, 100 females) from Four (4) co-educational schools.Mathematics Performance Test (MAT) 1 & 2 were the instruments used in collecting data as pre-test and post-test respectively. A spearman Brown property of coefficient 0.71 was obtained. The data were analyzed using statistical package for social sciences (SPSS). Descriptive statistics (mean and standard deviation) was used to answer the research questions while the research hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance using t-test. The result of the study shows that ASEI approach has significant effect on pupils’ performance in mathematics over the conventional method. The study further shows that the strategy (ASEI) has no significant effect on location with regards to performance. Therefore, it is location friendly. The study concludes that ASEI strategy of teaching and learning mathematics has a significant effect on pupils’ performance. It was recommended that a periodic (at least once a year) mathematics workshop on ASEI strategy should be organized by the Kaduna State Universal Basic Education board (SUBEB). Textbook publishers like STAN should make sure that the design of their pupils’and teachers’ texts are ASEI compliant so as to achieve the stated objectives in mathematics curriculum.

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