Common Deficiencies in Computational Skills in Basic Mathematics Among College Freshmen
Keywords:
Common Deficiencies, Computational Skills, Freshmen, MathematicsAbstract
This study determined the computational skills in Basic Mathematics of freshmen college students in Samar State University, Samar State College of Agriculture and Forestry, and Tiburcio Tancinco Memorial Institute of Science and Technology during the first semester of the school year 2008-2009. The study used the descriptive-correlational method of research aimed at explaining and describing the common deficiencies in computational skills of the first year education and information technology students coming from the SUC’s of Samar. The student-respondents have a mean age of 17.90 years old, majority of them were females, single, taking BEED, Roman Catholic, graduated from public high schools, with average final grade in Basic Mathematics of 2.1 or satisfactory performance, with parents who are elementary level for a father and college graduate for a mother, with father a farmer and mother a house keeper, with a mean family income of Php 6,722.81 and a family size of seven members in the family. The student-respondents exhibited a moderately favourable attitude towards mathematics with a grand mean of 3.45. The student-respondents encountered high deficiency in percent, average deficiency in decimals and fairly low deficiency in whole numbers, integers, fractions and ratio and proportion. Mathematics teachers must properly select the appropriate teaching strategies and instructional materials that will best develop the computational skills of the students. There must be a constant evaluation of the students’ performance to check the learning competence achieved by the students.
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