Open AccessVan Hiele Geometric Thinking Levels of Junior High School Students of Atebubu Municipality in Ghana
Author(s) -
Amidu Bashiru,
Josephine Nyarko
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
african journal of educational studies in mathematics and sciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2508-1128
pISSN - 0855-501X
DOI - 10.4314/ajesms.v15i1.4
Subject(s) - mathematics education , significant difference , test (biology) , mathematics , psychology , sample (material) , statistics , physics , biology , paleontology , thermodynamics
This study was to measure the Van Hiele’s levels of geometric thinking attained by Ghanaian Junior High School Form 3 (JHS 3) students before writing the BECE. A quantitative research approach was employed in the study and a sample of 105 students randomly selected from the four schools. The results showed that 22 students (20.95%) of the students could not attain any VHG level at all, that means they were in level 0. 65 students (61.91%) of the students attained Van Hiele’s level 1, 17 (16.19%) reached level 2, and only 1 (0.95%) reached level 3. An independent t-test yielded no statistically significant difference between public and private school students in their geometric thinking levels t(103) = 0.926, p > 0.05. The findings indicated that most of the Ghanaian JHS graduates do not attain satisfactory levels of VHGT. Recommendations are made for improving the teaching of geometry.