Problems Encountered and Academic Performance in Mathematics Subject of the Grade VI Pupils of Mariveles Elementary School, Dauis, Bohol

Abstract

Mathematics is an essential part of people’s daily lives and nobody can do away with it. This study sought to discover the problems encountered and the academic performance in Mathematics of the Grade VI pupils in Mariveles, Elementary School in Mariveles, Dauis, Bohol. The respondents of this study were the 80 Grade VI pupils in Mariveles Elementary School aged 10-13 years old who were chosen through complete enumeration, but only 71 of them were able to answer the questionnaire. The design employed in the study was a descriptive-survey self-constructed questionnaire in Likert scale form as the primary instrument in identifying the problems encountered by pupils in Mathematics subject, and documentary analysis was used to determine the respondents’ academic performance. T-test for uncorrelated means was utilized to in comparing the male and female respondents in terms of their problems encountered in mathematics and Pearson product-moment of correlation as statistical treatments for testing possible correlation between academic performance and the problems encountered among the respondents. The results showed that the academic performance of the respondents in Mathematics was Satisfactory, Pearson r shows that the academic performance and problems encountered were correlated and that the male and female respondents had a significant difference.