A Survey of the weakness of the grade four pupils of the public elementary schools of Baguio City in the four fundamental arithmetic operations

Abstract

The problem of this study is to determine the nature of the weaknesses of an errors committed by the 1968-1969 grade IV pupils of the public elementary schools of Baguio City, in the mastery of the four fundamental operations involving integers, fractions and decimals. And incidental objective, in as much as there are no conclusive studies on sex as a factor in mathematical abilities, is to make a comparative performance of the boys and the girls in this population. The descriptive method of investigation was used in this study with a teacher-made test as the instrument. Consisting of one hundred items, the test comprises six sub-tests, namely: Test I, Addition of Integers; Test II, Substraction of Integers; Test III, Multiplication of Integers; Test IV, Division of Integers; Test V, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Fractions; and Test VI, Addition, Subtraction, Multiplication and Division of Decimals.