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INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR BRIDGING THE GENDER GAP IN STUDENTS MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT; IMPLICATION FOR TEACHING MENSURATION IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS



INNOVATIVE TECHNIQUE FOR BRIDGING THE GENDER GAP IN STUDENTS MATHEMATICS ACHIEVEMENT; IMPLICATION FOR TEACHING MENSURATION IN SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS

Paulina R. Danladi,  Aliyu Waziri and Udonsa A. Ezekiel
Department of Mathematics
Federal College of Education, Yola, Adamawa State, Nigeria

ABSTRACT
The paper was on innovative technique for bridging gender gap in student’s mathematics achievement: implication for teaching mensuration in senior secondary school. The concept of mathematics and issues on gender gap was discussed as way of introduction. Innovation and mensuration was defined as the implementation of the new and mensuration as the process of mathematical rules for finding lengths, areas and volumes of shapes or objects. The paper further discussed the need of innovations and innovations in teaching mathematics which was diversified in terms of methods, pedagogic resources and mastery learning strategy used in teaching-learning process. Some examples were demonstrated to show some innovative technique used in teaching mensuration at senior secondary school level. Recommendations made among others is that students should be involved in the process of learning by taking them beyond the process of listening to that of thinking, reasoning and doing.


INTRODUCTION
Mathematics is a very important subject. It is a human activity involving the solution of problematic situations and especially in finding the responses or solution to these external and internal problems. Okebukola (1992) opined that mathematics is referred as a central intellectual discipline of the technological societies. 
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