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Research Study – Published: December 15, 2018
The Influence of Home Environment on Mathematical Problem-Solving Ability of Higher Secondary Students
Johnsi Priya, J.
ABSTRACT
The present study aims to examine the mathematical problem-solving ability and home environment
of higher secondary school students. A sample of 810 students (406 boys and 404 girls) from
different schools of Chennai district was selected using stratified random sampling. Survey
method was adopted.
The Mathematical Problem Solving Ability test (constructed by the investigator) and the Home
Environment towards Mathematics Inventory (Ancel Maria & Santhamma Raju, 1998) were used.
Statistical methods such as Mean, Standard Deviation, t-test and ANOVA were applied using SPSS
(Version 20.0).
Findings show that girls scored significantly higher in both home environment and mathematical
problem-solving ability when compared to boys. No significant differences were observed among
government, government-aided and self-financing school students. Students belonging to high
socio-economic status scored higher in both variables. A strong correlation was found between
home environment and mathematical problem-solving ability.
Keywords: Home environment, mathematical problem-solving, higher secondary students, academic
support, parental involvement
This is an Open Access Research distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution
License (www.creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution,
and reproduction in any Medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
How to cite this article: Johnsi Priya, J. (2018).
The Influence of Home Environment on Mathematical Problem-Solving Ability of Higher Secondary Students.
Indian Educational Researcher, 11(2), 21–32.
Received: October 18, 2018;
Revision Received: November 24, 2018;
Accepted: December 15, 2018.
Responding Author: Johnsi Priya, J. @ drpriya@gmail.com
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