Revisiting The Four Fundamental Operations to Bridge Mathemathicalarning Gaps of The Grade 6 Pupils of San Isidro Elementary School

AUTHOR(S)

KENT WINCHILL G. SERAFIN BENJIE M. MENDRESA MERIGEN B. MENDRESA

ABSTRACT

——As teachers usher a new generation of problem solvers, a challenge to overcome today relates to current math proficiency levels. When the Department of Education (DepEd) reopen inperson limited face-to-face classes, the researchers are alarm of the growing number of learners in San Isidro Elementary School who are behind in their math skills specifically in four fundamental operations. With that thought, the researchers decided to conduct a pre-test consisting of 40-item multiple choice test to assess the learning percentage of the learners. But due to time constraints, the researchers opted to use only the enrolled 17 Grade VI learners of the School Year 2021-2022 as respondents of this study in order to attain the research objectives within the allotted time. The intervention started on April 8, 2021 and ended on June 16, 2021. The same instrument was given the next day for post-testing to assess the learning percentage of the learners after the implementation of the intervention. The scores from 0 – 11 has the highest frequency of 8 or 47.06% of the respondents belong to the beginning level while the scores from 36 – 40 has the lowest frequency of 0 or none of the respondents belong to the advance level. The scores from 28- 35 has the highest frequency of 6 or 35.29% of the respondents reached proficient stage after the implementation of the intervention while the scores from 36 – 40 and 0 – 11 has the lowest frequency of 2 or 11.76%. It reveals that two pupils already reached advanced level and only two remain at the beginning level compared to eight after the pre-test. The p-value obtained is less than the level of significance, 0.05 indicating that there is a significant difference before and after the implementation of the intervention hence, the decision is to reject the null hypothesis. Thus, this depict that the revisiting of four fundamental operations significantly bridge mathematical learning gaps of the Grade 6 Pupils of San Isidro Elementary School. The intervention turned out effective and can be implemented continuously. Keywords — Four Fundamental Operations: Learning Gaps: Significant