Effectiveness of Remedial Intervention to the Performance of Grade 3 Pupils in Mathematics

AUTHOR(S)

EMILY S. ESTOJERO

ABSTRACT

— Mathematics has a vital part in the lives of the pupils because everyday people use Math in their day-to-day activities. It offers pupils’ job choices across many content areas of sciences, technologies, engineering, and mathematics. It helps promote critical thinking and address pupils’ difficulty. However, despite of the many advantages that Math gives to the people who use them, still there are challenges and issues that teacher met in the class. After the two-year of being in pandemic, many pupils suffer learning loss in terms of academic learning. As a result, many pupils were identified non-numerates given the assessment on the mastery of the four fundamental operation. The fact that this study was conceptualized to evaluate the effectiveness in the implementation of remedial intervention utilizing puzzles, window cards, video-based activities and parallel test materials written in the learning activity sheets in improving the performance of the Grade 3 pupils in Mathematics. A quasi-experimental research design employing the pre-test and post-test Mathematics test taken from the Regional-Based Numeracy Assessment as provided in Regional Memorandum No. 279, s. 2019 and utilizing the learning materials and activities in the conduct of the intervention. Simple percentage and t-test of mean difference were the statistical tools used to interpret the result of the study. The study revealed a significant difference in the pre-test and post-test performances of the Grade 3 pupils before and after implementation of remedial intervention utilizing the puzzles, window cards, video-based activities and parallel test materials written in the learning activity sheets. The learning materials, strategies, approaches, activities, regular practice, exercises and the learner itself contribute in the attainment of the educational goals of the pupils in improving the performance in Math. Thus, making the remedial intervention an effective strategy in improving the performance of the pupils in Mathematics. Keywords — Effectiveness, Remedial Intervention, Performance, Grade 3 Pupils, Mathematics