Achievement in Mathematics of Secondary Level Girl Students in Syangja District

ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS OF SECONDARY LEVEL GIRL STUDENTS IN SYANGJA DISTRICT

A THESIS SUBMITTED BY RAMU DEVKOTA

FOR THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF REQUIRMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION

SUBMITTED TO DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS FACULTY OF EDUCATION PRITHVI NARAYAN CAMPUS, POKHARA TRIVUWAN UNIVERSITY

2013

ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS OF SECONDARY LEVEL GIRL STUDENTS IN SYANGJA DISTRICT

A THESIS

SUBMITTED BY

RAMU DEVKOTA

ROLL NO: 231/063

EXAM ROLL NO: 480602

T.U. REGD. NO.: 50274-91

FOR THE PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF REQUIRMENT OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF EDUCATION

SUBMITTED TO

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

FACULTY OF EDUCATION

PRITHVI NARAYAN CAMPUS, POKHARA

TRIVUWAN UNIVERSITY

2013

TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY

PRITHIVI NARAYAN CAMPUS

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

POKHARA, NEPAL

Recommendation Letter

This is to certify that Mr. RAMU DEVKOTA, Student of academic year 2063/064 with campus Roll No: 231/063, Exam Roll No: 480602 and T.U. registration number 50274-91 has completed his thesis under my supervision during the period prescribed by the rules and regulations of Tribhuvan University, Nepal. The thesis entitled on "Achievement in Mathematics of Secondary Level Girl Students in Syangja District" has been prepared based on the result of his investigation conducted during the period 2066-2068 under the department of mathematics, Prithvi Narayan Campus, Bhimkalipatan, Pokhara. I recommend and forward that his thesis submitted for the evaluation as the partial requirement toward the degree of Master of Education.

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Mr. N. N. Jha

Supervisor

Department of Mathematics

Prithvi Narayan Campus

Pokhara

Date: 2069/12/...... TRIBHUWAN UNIVERSITY PRITHVI NARAYAN CAMPUS

DEPARTMENT OF MATHEMATICS

POKHARA, NEPAL

LETTER OF APPROVAL

Thesis Submitted

RAMU DEVKOTA

Entitled

"Achievement in Mathematics of Secondary Level Girl Students in Syangja District" has been approved in partial fulfillment for the Requirement for Degree of Master in Education

Evaluation Committee Signature

1 Mr. N.N. Jha

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(Head of Department of Mathematics)

2 …………………….

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(External)3 Mr. N.N. Jha

……………………..... (Supervisor)

Date: ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

I am highly delighted to state my sincere gratitude to honorable supervisor Mr. N. N. Jha, Head of Department of Mathematics for his valuable guidance, encouragement, suggestions, instruction and cooperation during this study.

I would like to extend my sincere gratitude to my respected teacher Maheshwor Pokhrel, Tribhuvan Sharma, Gangadhar Poudel, Bibhab Neupane, Bishnu Thapa, Department of Mathematics P.N for their valuable suggestions and heart striking comments.

I would like to thank to principal, mathematics teachers, parents and students who were concerned in this study for their kind co-operation and management.

Furthermore, my great appreciation to all my friends and Sugam Computer Sewa, Bagar, for best typing and binding of this thesis. Lastly my heartily honor goes to my parents, my wife, my son Abi and my daughter Asmita for their invaluable contribution to my career development and great patience and encouragement during my study.

April, 2013 Ramu Devkota

ABSTRACT

In the context of Nepal specially in Syangja district, there are only two types of schools; public and private in which mathematics subject has been teaching as a compulsory mathematics from Nursary to class ten and optional mathematics only for class 9 and 10.

Main theme of this dissertation is to find out the mathematics achievement for those students who were studying at class ten in the form of girl students in Syangja district.

In this case both schools namely public and private, are selected, only for making this dissertation by taking normal population as a sample where 32 students , and their parents and 4 teachers selected for taking achievement test and interviews on the basis of interpretation and analyzing the data can be easily found.

i) For the mathematics achievement of girl students studying at class 10 in the Syangja district, the variation is easily seen in the various conditions like public and private schools, rural and urban areas in rural areas, in rural and urban areas of private school and in rural and urban areas of public schools. ii) Similarly, for the mathematics achievement of girl students, there is no variation as seen between educated and non educated parents, in rural and urban areas of private school in rural and urban areas of public school.

From girls scoring it can be easily seen that they got low as well as poor achievement in compulsory mathematics due to many factors such as areas, education of parents and so on.

CONTENTS

Page

Recommendation Letter ii

Letter of approval iii

Acknowledgement iv Abstract v

Table of Content vi

List of Table viii

CHAPTER-I: INTRODUCTION (1-8)

Background of the study 1

Statement of the problem 4

Objective of the study 5

Significance of the study 5

Definition of terms 6

Limitation of the study 7 Statement of research hypothesis 7

Statement of Statistical Hypothesis 7

CHAPTER -II: REVIEW OF RELATED LITERATURE (9-15)

CHAPTER -III : METHODOLOGY (16-18)

Design of Study 16

Population 16

Sample 17

Tools 17

Achievement test 17

Data Collection procedures 18

Data analysis procedure 18

CHAPTER IV: ANALYSIS AND INTERPRETATION (19-25)

Comparison of mathematics achievement of Girl students

between public and private school. 20

Comparison of mathematic achievement of Girl students between rural and urban areas 20