Effectiveness of Alternative Instructional Material (AIM) on Arithmetic Achievement of Class V Students - A Study

Abstract

Mathematics is considered as one of the important subject in primary school curriculum. It is more closely related to our daily life as compared to other subjects. It is a science of space numbers; magnitude and measurement. It helps in the development of the habit of self-confidence and sense of appreciations among children. Arithmetic. Algebra and Geometry are branches of mathematics at elementary level. Though every branch of mathematics has its utility. Arithmetic has practical value in life. We cannot know utility of calculation unless we have the knowledge of arithmetic. In our day-to-day life every person, whether he/she is a collie or tailor, a vegetable vender or a scientist has to apply arithmetic for his\her livelihood as well as for coming out to exact results and conclusions. It is true that in each and every sphere of our daily life arithmetic provides us its help and patronage without which we can not do anything. The knowledge of a arithmetic is very versatile and required in all the day to day life activities beginning from dawn to dust. Thus It can be said that in our daily social life arithmetic is as important as oxygen for physiological life. Every dealing of our daily life beings and ends with the arithmetical thinking and reasoning. For example, daily household problems, food, clothing, idea of quantity and quality, daily account of income and expenditure etc. Such type of day-to-day problems cannot be solved without the knowledge of Arithmetic.