The Influence of Learning Strategies on the Mathematics Achievement of Students as it relates to School Factors
Abstract
Mathematics is usually seen as the language of science and technology. Without doubt, it is the bedrock for technological advancement of any country and a requirement for effective study of other school subjects in areas like numbers and numeration, variation, graphs, fractions, equations and also in volume. Hence, it was made compulsory for all students from Basic Education up until senior secondary school level. In spite of its importance, the performance of students in the subject has been a great concern to the society as poor performance is obtained year after year in the subject by students. For example, Zalmon and Wonu (2017) shown the percentage performance of students from year 2010 to year 2016 in Mathematics for grade levels A1-C6 as follows; 33.55%, 38.93%, 49.00%, 36.00%, 31.30%, 34.18% and 38.68% for 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 respectively.
