Abstract
This study investigated the effect of cooperative learning strategy on senior secondary school students’ performance in Mathematics. The study adopted a quasi-experimental research design. The sample for the study consisted of one hundred and forty-four (144) Senior Secondary School two students, selected from Awka Education, Anambra State, Nigeria. The instrument for data collection was Mathematics Performance Test (MPT). The instrument was validated by three experts and had a reliability index of 0.89 obtained through the use of Pearson product moment correlation. Three research questions and three hypotheses were formulated to guide the study. The collected data were analyzed using mean and standard deviation to answer the research questions, while t-test statistics was used to test the null hypotheses at 0.05 alpha levels. The result of the study showed among others that senior secondary school students performed highly when taught Mathematics concepts using cooperative learning instructional strategy; both the male and female students benefitted equally from the cooperative learning strategy. Based on the findings of the study, it was recommended that Mathematics teachers should adopt cooperative learning strategy as an effective learning strategy in order to improve senior secondary school students’ academic performance. Also, school management boards should organize workshops, seminars and conferences to expose teachers and students constantly to the use of the strategy for maximum academic output.
Highlights
The introduction of science education into the educational curriculum in Nigeria was a way of solving societal problems such as creating employment opportunities, medical and health care services, technology related issues and many others
Ajayi (2020) reaffirmed the ability of cooperative learning when used as an instructional strategy to bring about significant improvement in students academic performance in school science subjects and a nonsignificance difference in achievement scores between male and female students in the cooperative learning group
This showed that both male and female senior secondary school students taught Mathematics concepts using cooperative learning strategy had a high academic performance, the mean scores of female are higher than their male counterparts
Summary
The introduction of science education into the educational curriculum in Nigeria was a way of solving societal problems such as creating employment opportunities, medical and health care services, technology related issues and many others. Science is an intellectual activity carried out by scientists designed to discover information about the natural world in which we live and to discover ways in which this information can be organized to benefit human race. According to Ezeanyi (2021), Mathematics is the study of measurement, patterns, structures, relationship and properties of numbers or quantities, figures and sets This implies that Mathematics can be considered as a subject and processes, which contains rules of calculations, and processes, which go to help mankind in living a life of comfort and happiness. It contains everything in a very condensed manner and arranged logically which makes it easy for us to group and retain. Despite the important roles mathematics plays in science teaching and learning, the results of students in mathematics
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