• EFFECT OF CONCEPTUAL ACHIEVEMENT OF CALCULUS ON ABILITY OF DOING PROBLEMS OF CALCULUS OF STUDENTS AT HIGHER SECONDARY LEVEL IN BARPETA DISTRICT OF ASSAM

Abstract

Students’ ability of grasping calculus has been found to be of great concern. Students are often locked into a process-oriented style of thinking that appears as an obstacle for proper understanding the important concepts of the subject. Here, our study would be based on this area for identifying the role of conceptual achievements on various aspects of the subject. Some of these, in particular, that have been taken into consideration are functions and variables, limit and continuity, differentiation, indeterminate forms and integration to explore some concrete mathematics or statistics biased information on ability of working out problems of these topics correctly by the students at higher secondary level. Only keeping this in note, data were collected by means of two questionnaires for 106 higher secondary students and by Karl Pearson correlation coefficient as the tool. This has been analyzed and found to be fairly positive (0.818). Thus, the findings reveal a significant correlation between two factors in discussion. Moreover, the expertise of ability of working out problems of calculus has been found to be same as their conceptual achievement.