Significant Study

Significance of the study This study aims to propose an intervention program covering the secondary mathematics subject. The academe, both faculty and students, shall benefit through having a guided program to increase the quality of the mathematics teaching-learning process. administrators and the university itself will also benefit once the proposal had been approved, executed and positively assessed, producing competent students, thus encouraging more patrons who seek for quality education. This study may also be a basis and reference for future researches and researches .The new curricula are organized in three strands of objectives: knowledge, abilities and attitudes/values. According to those we interviewed at the Ministry, one of the major aims was definitively the improvement of the attitudes of the students towards mathematics. The new curricula suggested a more intuitive approach to the mathematical concepts, with emphasis in graphical representations and real world situations. Other new features included the introduction of probability and statistics from an earlier grade level and a greater attention to geometry. In terms of teaching methodologies, the use of calculators was recommended from grade 7 on and some attention was given to active methodologies and group work.The new discipline of quantitative methods was ment for students of humanistic areas who did not have formerly mathematics in their plan of studies. The content was (a) logic and complex and real numbers, (b) statistics, combinatorics, and probability, and (c) functions. Its main purpose was, according to the offical documents, to give students tools and ideas seen as “required for an integration in social and economical activity”, and also as “necessary for the development of a dynamic thinking structure ”Since the subject matter of the experimental curricula underwent significant changes regarding the present content, the students involved in this experience forgot their