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| Title: | THE EFFECTIVENESS OF TEACHING MATHEMATICAL CONCEPTS BY THE INDUCTIVE AND DEDUCTIVE APPROACHES: AN EXPERIMENTAL STUDY IN GRADE ELEVEN OF ENTOTO COMPREHENSIVE SECONDARY SCHOOL |
| Authors: | ASMAMAW, YIMER |
| Advisors: | Dr. Azeb Desta |
| Copyright: | May-1993 |
| Date Added: | 14-Nov-2012 |
| Abstract: | An experimental study was designed to investigate the relative
effectiveness of the deductive and inductive approaches in
teaching mathematical concepts using specific models. 390 grade
eleven students were selected by an achievement test whose
content was grade nine and ten mathematics and their average
resul t of semester I of 1992/93 academic year. They were
grouped into low-, medium-, and high-achievers on the basis of
the above criteria. Each group was divided into two sub groups
who did not have significant difference in ability at the
beginning. Eight concepts of mathematics were taught for three
weeks. A week after the termination of the lessons, a test
whose content was the eight concepts taught was administered
and 346 students, who attended all the lessons were used for
data analysis. The Mann Whitney U-test for larger samples at
0.05 level of significance showed no significant differences
between the effectiveness of the two methods and between the
two-medium- and the two-high achiever groups. But a significant
difference between the two low-achiever groups in favor of the
inductive method was found. The overall test results favored
the inductive method although there were no statistically
significant differences |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3764 |
| Appears in: | Thesis - Mathematics Education
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