Volume : 6, Issue : 11, November - 2017

An experimental study of the effect of hands-on activities in Mathematics in relation to achievement and concept retention of VII standard students in government schools of Delhi.

Ms. Sumeet Khurana

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;</p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:0in;margin-right:3.0pt;margin-bottom:0in;&#10;margin-left:3.0pt;margin-bottom:.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:200%;&#10;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;&#10;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;;mso-bidi-font-weight:&#10;bold">The present study was conducted to study the effect of hands-on activities in Mathematics in relation to achievement and concept retention of VII standard<b> </b>students in government schools of Delhi. The sample of the study was 164 students from three different government schools. The self-made post test of achievement and self-made test of concept retention were used to collect the data. The obtained data was analyzed with the help of t-test for two objectives. The major findings of the study include (i) </span><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:200%;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;">Students who are taught through hands-on activities in Mathematics achieved better than students who are taught through conventional method. (ii) Students taught through hands-on activities retained the concept better than students taught through conventional method in Mathematics.&nbsp;<o:p></o:p></span></p>