http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12283/357 2026-04-03T21:31:38Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12283/3913 The influence of family background on girls’ achievement in secondary school mathematics in Pallisa district: Otau, Michael This study was designed to investigate the influence of the family background on girls’ achievement in secondary school mathematics in Pallisa district. The study centered its review of related literature on factors such as Family financial situation, Parental marital status and Parental Education level in relation to girls’ achievement in mathematics. Average, percentage and measures of relationship were used as approach to data analysis. The study revealed that such factors influenced the girls’ achievement in secondary school mathematics in Pallisa district. Based on the finding of the study, recommendations were offered in the last chapter of the research so as to improve on the girls’ achievement in secondary school mathematics not only in Pallisa district but across the country. Dissertation 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12283/3899 The relevancy of the competence based lower secondary school curriculum in shaping students’ attitude in mathematics in Entebbe city in Uganda. Ochwo, Joseph The general objective of the study was to investigate the goal of the new lower secondary school curriculum in shaping students attitude towards mathematics performance and specific objectives were to identify the best instructional method ,to identify the best instructional and teaching methodology that can intrinsically motivate students towards mathematics ,to establish the impact of new lower secondary school curriculum on students’ self-confidence towards mathematics, establish the advantages of the mode of assessment of the new lower secondary school curriculum in terms of the usefulness of mathematics. From the findings 52.8% of the respondents agreed that the new lower secondary school curriculum is helping in shaping students’ attitude towards mathematics in Entebbe city and the study also revealed that 38.5% of the respondents disagreed that the new lower secondary school curriculum does not help in shaping students attitude towards mathematics and 8.7% of the respondents did not know whether the new lower secondary curriculum is helping in shaping students attitude towards mathematics or not. The study recommends that under this new curriculum, mathematics concepts must be directed towards solving real life problems such that students realize the usefulness of mathematics in their lives. The study also recommends that mathematics teachers should be audible enough, friendly, approachable and give students time. Dissertation 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12283/3898 Blended learning of mathematics during covid19 pandemic, Busitema university, Tororo district, Uganda: Ochieng, George William The outbreak of covid-19 pandemic resulted into closure of schools including higher institutions of learning in Uganda. This made most institutions including Busitema university to adopt blended learning approach to teaching/learning process. This kind of learning was new to most students and therefore was not easily adopted by students of Busitema University at Nagongera campus since it was their first to use Zoom for online learning especially in Mathematics class. Most students were used to face-to-face lectures whereas during online lectures, they could campaign to the lectures. It seemed that they were some difficulties on how to use Zoom which called for a comprehensive study. This study assessed the responses of third year students of mathematics class of Nagongera campus on the effectiveness of blended learning based on Zoom online platform, like/dislike of zoom and blended learning, challenges students faced in blended learning during covid-19 pandemic era and gave the suggested solutions to the challenges. This research included surveying and describing the responses of 50 third year mathematics students of faculty of science and education at Nagongera campus. Responses were obtained by questionnaire method and the results were further collected, sorted and categorized on tables. My finding reveals that zoom was disliked by 68% of the sample population and as a result making blended learning of mathematics a dislike to about 64% of the students. This was as a result of several challenges the students during zoom lectures such as poor internet, high rate of data consumption, lack of training among others. The like/ dislike of Zoom and blended learning was compared using two-way Anova as in the results and discussions. On effectiveness of Zoom for online lectures, 4% of the sample population said that it works effectively,8% said that zoom works effectively, 24% less effectively, majority said that zoom was not effective for online learning of mathematics since it consumes a lot of data and also requires good internet within an area whereas 6% said that they totally dislike zoom since it was very ineffective. They further explained that this made blended learning especially online lectures to be less effective. According to general analysis, about 70% of the sample population would like to use traditional face-to-face method of learning mathematics, 5% wanted online lectures and 25% needed blended learning of mathematics courses. Also, on the challenges faced during blended learning, 42% of study population faced poor internet coverage, 18% lacked power, 10% lacked devices which were needed for online lectures,24% lacked data and 6% responded that there was shortage of seats and buildings during face- to -face interactions and the suggested solutions were given on results and discussions. According the results obtained, the use of blended learning requires an online learning platform which attract students’ attention and also motivational especially 0n teaching and learning of mathematics courses. This will enable students to solve challenges they faced such as low motivation and this would later improve on their performance in Mathematics. Dissertation 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12283/3813 Effects of covid-19 on performance in mathematics among secondary students in Namisindwa district: Khisa, Ronald Salekwa The outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic caused schools and other public places such as markets, bars, cinema holes where people could gather to do a given work to be closed. The closure of schools made learning activities to stop in Namisindwa district and as a result few teachers who would teach through televisions and radio stations were involved. This was a government initiative with less participation of individual schools. However, despite all the above involvement, less involvement has been in Uganda to mitigate the effects of COVID-19 Lon students’ performance in mathematics. Due to the above mentioned alarming situation, some students quit schooling and even those who remained schooling were promoted automatically to the next classes without finishing the syllabi. And this made most students to perform poorly in mathematics and therefore calls for research. Dissertation 2023-01-01T00:00:00Z