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Caribbean Examination Council

Mathematics Project
School Based Assignment (S.B.A)
(YEAR 2020)

Name of Candidate: Sheneza Mingo

School: Annandale Secondary School

Centre #: 090002

Candidate #: 0900020598

Teacher: Mr. Daniel Sadafal

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TABLE OCONTENTS

        Item         Pages
Table of Contents……………………………………………………………………………1

Acknowledgements………………………………………………………………………….2

Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….3

Statement of Problem………………………………………………………………………...5

Method of Investigation……………………………………………………………………...5
  
Instrument Used to Collect Data……………………………………………………………..6-7
  
Procedures used to collect Data……………………………………………………………...8
 
Presentation and Explanation of Data………………………………………………………. 9-11  
     
Interpretation of Data………………………………………………………………………...12
  
Findings……………………………………………………………………………………....13
  
Recommendations and Implementation…………………………………………………….. 14
  
Conclusion……………………………………………………………………………………15

Appendix…………………………………………………………………………………......16-17

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ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
Primarily I would like to thank god for giving me the sense of knowledge for completing this SBA
within a short period of time. I would also like to express my sense of gratitude towards my
math’s teacher whose valuable guidance has been the one that help me patch this project and
make it full proof success. Lastly I would like to thank my friends and family who took the
opportunity to help me with their valuable suggestion and guidance.

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INTRODUCTION
Annandale Secondary School is a public high school located in the Demerara -Mahaica District.
It is also located between Buxton and Lusignan. The researcher has been attending Annandale
Secondary School for over four years. Concerns for the best school teaching method is what
motivated the researcher to look at the topic. As a student of Annandale Secondary School the
researcher notice that 40 grade 11 students are encountering problem choosing online classes
over face-to-face interaction while some students prefer face-to face interaction rather than
online classes. This made the researcher perturbed and anxious to find out which school
teaching method is best and ways in which the situation can be resolve. The investigation will
take place online at my home from November 2nd ,2020 to November 5th 2020.The researcher
will investigate how many grade 11 students from Annandale Secondary prefer face-to-face
interaction over online classes from each stream and will collect data from each students. The
data will be tabulated and documented, then displayed on a chart; an interpretation followed
by a discussion will be done next.

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STATEMENT OF PROBLEM
To investigate how many grade 11 students from Annandale Secondary would prefer face-to-
face interaction for school over online classes.

METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION

In order to gather information about the issue at hand the researcher will be collecting data
conducted using 40 printed questionnaires. There are 120 grade 11 students in Annandale
Secondary School and the required number of students is required to answer all 14 questions
on the questionnaire. A questionnaire is defined as an instrument of research consisting of a
series of questions and other prompts for the purpose of gathering information from
respondents on a particular matter. The researcher chooses the printed questionnaire as the
method of data collection because of the following reason:

 The relatively low cost to print questionnaires.

 The eases in data analysis.
 The fact that data collection can be achieved within a short time frame.

INSTRUMENT USED TO COLLECT DATA

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Dear students,

This is a survey carried out to investigate which school teaching method is best during the
pandemic. This is a study being conducted as an SBA for a Mathematics course I’m presently
looking at.

You are advised to answer all of the questions truthfully. There is no need for your name to be
written on the questionnaire, no one will ever know who wrote those particular answers.

Please leave a tick in the box and write detailed answers where necessary.

1) Gender

Male Female

2) Age

11-16 15-16

3) Religion

Christianity Hinduism Muslim others

4) Ethnicity

African Indian Chinese Others

5) What were your academic grades for last term?

100-90 89-80 79-69

59-40 39 -20

6) Do you think use of online classes motivate students to get their work done quicker during
the pandemic?

Yes No

7) Do you think face -to-face interaction motivates students to get their work done quicker
during the pandemic?

Yes No

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8) Do you think that education should use online teaching method to accommodate different
student’s personal learning style?

Yes No

9) Which school teaching method is best for you?

Online classes Face-to-face interaction

10) Do you think the teachers are having problem teaching online during the pandemic?

Yes No

11. Do you think your teacher’s use of online method is having a positive impact on your
academic?

Yes No

12. Do you think face-to face interaction is best for learning during the pandemic?

Yes No

13. Which one of the school teaching methods your parents are agreeing to?

Online teaching method face- to- face interaction

14. Why is online classes and face to face interaction affecting you?

Lack of device lack of wireless connection

Afraid of activity contracting covid 19 virus OTHERS

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PROCEDURE USE TO COLLECT DATA

A total of 40 questionnaires were prepared for distributions to the students .It is expected to
get 12 in return .The researcher had decided to share the 40 questionnaires to some of the
grade 11 students online by using whatsapp due to the pandemic.(12 of 40=30%).

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PRESENTATION AND EXPLANANTION OF DATA

Pie chart showing Male and Female who prefer online classes

Male
43% Female

57%

Figure one shows relationship between male and female who prefer online classes

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Pie chart showing percentage of Males and females who prefer face-to-
face interaction

Male
Female
40%

60%

Figure two shows the relationship between Males and Females who prefer face-to-face
interaction.

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Graph showing reasons why male and female are affected by online
classes and face-to-face interaction
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Figure three shows percentage of how males and females are affected by online classes.

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INTERPRETATION OF DATA

In doing my survey, out of 12 students, 7 are males while the other 5 are females .The
information that was gathered stated that 25 % of the females prefer online classes and
33.33%of the males also prefer online classes while 16.67%of the females prefer face-
to- face interaction and 25 % of the males also prefer face- to- face interaction due to
the pandemic. It was noticed that males are said to be the gender with the highest
percentage of choosing online classes and face- to- face interaction as the best
teaching method while female has the lowest percent of choosing face to face
interaction and online classes as the best teaching method. The reason for this being is
because most of the males lack devices, lack a wireless connection and are afraid of
contracting the covid 19 virus .The females are also said to lack device, lack a wireless
connection and are also afraid of contracting the covid 19 virus .Due to these result it
can be concluded that males in Annandale Secondary School has the highest
percentage overall for choosing which method is best for teaching during the pandemic. 

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FINDINGS

 As shown in figure 1, the pie chart clearly shows that males have the highest
percentage of choosing online classes as the best teaching method during the
pandemic.

 As shown in figure 2, the pie chart clearly shows that males have the highest
percentage than females of choosing fact-to -face interaction as the best
teaching method.
 As shown in figure 3 a bar graph it clearly shows that lack of device has the
highest range overall for males, lack of wireless connection has the highest
range overall for males, afraid of contracting covid 19 viruses has the highest
range for females and others had the highest range overall for both genders.

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IMPLEMENTATION AND RECOMMENDATION

The researcher happily recommends the following :

 Financial support from government

The financial support from government can help by letting parents apply for
wireless service and also purchasing device for their child.

 Distance learning

Teachers can ensure that the students are six feet away from each other while
learning.

 Implementation of personal protective equipment.

The government can implement personal protective equipment during the

pandemic for students who are having face-to-face interaction.

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CONCLUSION
The researcher gathered majority of the data presented in this project through the
means of a questionnaire. From the data provided the researcher had discovered that
males are mostly having problems choosing which teaching method is best during the
pandemic. The researcher also discovered majority of the students who completed the
questionnaire choose lack of wireless connection as a reason why one of the teaching
methods is not good.

APPENDIX

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A questionnaire was prepared.

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