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Fundamental Operations In Mathematics With Or Without Aided Calculator: Implications To Students’ Learning
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AUTHOR(S)
Dr. Agustin Nunez Arceňa
KEYWORDS
Fundamental Operations, Mathematics, With or Without Aided Calculator, Students’ Learning
ABSTRACT
The purpose of this study was to find out the performance of the selected fourth year high school day students in Carmen National High School Carmen, Cebu in fundamental operations with or without calculator. Calculators are great invention that in one way or another helped the children in doing some of their mathematical computations. But a desire to identify the current condition of the students in performing basic mathematical computations by comparing their computational ability without using calculators and of using calculators pushes these curious minds to pursue this study. This study was conducted during the School Year 2013-2014.In conducting the study, the description method was utilized with the help of a researcher-made questionnaire as the main tool in gathering data in order to come up with sufficient and justifiable results. There are 229 respondents out of 535 total populations of the day session fourth year high school students.The results showed that the students were performing well in doing calculations with the use of calculators compared to those who were not using calculators. It only confirmed their dependency on calculators in solving basic mathematical computations, which by any case, only traces its disadvantages to the teaching matters. Attitude like relying on inventions that gave direct, fast and accommodating features were observable in most students and always results to weakening ability to judge the correctness of an answer due to the fact that they do not think of the real concept enough to determine what type of answer to expect.
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