Abstract
This study assessed the demographic characteristics of students’ performance in Mathematics in senior secondary Certificate Examination in Delta Central Senatorial District of Delta State. The purpose of the study is to assess the relationship between gender, location, socio-economic status and students’ performance in Mathematics in Senior Secondary Certificate Examination. The ex-post facto research design was used for the study. The population of the study is 15,170 SS3. A sample of 759 students was randomly selected from the total population using simple random sampling technique of balloting and stratified random sampling technique. Four research questions and four hypotheses were raised to guide the study. The instrument used for the study was a 40-item multiple choice senior secondary Mathematics Achievement test (SSMAT). Multiple regressions were used for the analysis. The study established that gender and socio-economic status contributed to students’ performance in Mathematics in senior secondary certificate examination. Recommendation was made based on the findings of the study.
Highlights
Mathematics, as a formal area of teaching and learning, was developed about 5000 years ago by the Sumerians
The following research questions guided the study: (i) What is the relationship between gender, location, socio-economic status and students’ performance in Mathematics in Senior Secondary Certificate Examination?
(ii) What is the relationship between gender and students’ performance in Mathematics in Senior Secondary Certificate Examination?
Summary
Mathematics, as a formal area of teaching and learning, was developed about 5000 years ago by the Sumerians. Mathematics is the science that deals with the logic of shapes, quantity and arrangement (Hom, 2013). Lea, Parkinson, Phillips, Francis, Webb and Bull (2015) defined Mathematics as the science of numbers and shapes. It involves calculation, computation, measurement, quantity and magnitude. It is exact, precise, systematic and logical. D) sees Mathematics as a science whose subject matter is special forms and qualitative relationships of the real world. Udonsa (2015) defined Mathematics as the study of qualitative relations or the science of structure, order, numbers, space and relations about counting, measuring, describing of shapes and objects. Branches of Mathematics according to Turnbull et al (2015) include Arithmetic, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry, Calculus and Discrete Mathematics
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