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Do children in my maths group think different maths topics are easy, appropriate or hard?

Do children in my maths group think different maths topics are easy, appropriate or hard?. By Joe Rogers. Introduction. My name is Joe Rogers. My question is: do children in my maths group think different maths topics are easy, appropriate or hard?

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Do children in my maths group think different maths topics are easy, appropriate or hard?

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  1. Do children in my maths group think different maths topics are easy, appropriate or hard? By Joe Rogers

  2. Introduction • My name is Joe Rogers. • My question is: do children in my maths group think different maths topics are easy, appropriate or hard? • I chose this question because I found parts of maths easy and some hard and I wanted to find out what other people think and their opinions. • My group consists of only of children from year 5. I am in the top class, on the highest table, all of my results came from my table. • This is how I got my answers.

  3. Planning my research and ethics • I started by working out what method I should use to find my answers. • I chose questionnaires as my method and I started to think of questions I should use. • I made questionnaires so my research participants are anonymous so I did not know who wrote what on the questionnaires. • I kept my data confidential so no-one knew who my data was from.

  4. My questionnaires and data collection • My questionnaires had 6 questions. • All of the questions were open-ended questions except question 1. • I gave my questionnaires to the nine other people in my group. There was 5 girls and 4 boys. • All of them filled in the sheet and returned it to me within 1-20 minutes. • The person who took 1 minute rushed so he could get to play football.

  5. Data analysis • I analysed my data by comparing the answers and finding similarities. • To do this I made a tally chart of each question. • Here is a chart of question 3.

  6. Tally chart

  7. My findings based on the tally chart • I found out that most people found adding and subtracting too easy and would like it to be more challenging. • I also found out that the topics that people found hard were area, perimeter, angles, decimals and fractions. • People thought that multiplying, dividing and angles were appropriate, although two people found angles too hard.

  8. My findings from answers to questions 2,4,5 and 6. • Most people said that they wouldn’t change anything about the difficulty of the Maths work. • Most people said that they found some topics hard and some easy, but were happy with that. • Some people said that they enjoyed being challenged and some said that they would like to do more group and pair work.

  9. Conclusion • To conclude I found out that out of the 9 people I asked, most of the found maths easy. • If I had to do this again, I would use more closed questions, as it was to hard to interpret my data with open questions, I would also use a graph, such as a bar chart to analysis data, as a tally chart is to confusing. • Also I would use a bigger sample size, for example my whole class or the whole of year 5, with a range of ability, as I only asked able children.

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