Abstract:
Mathematics is considered to be an important subject in the
school curriculum. If any subject are of study evokes wide
emotional comments it is the mathematics. Developing children's
abilities for mathematisation is the main goal of mathematics
education. The narrow aim of school mathematics is to develop
useful capabilities particularly those relating to numeracy -
number operations, measurements, decimals and percentages. The
higher aim is to develop the child's resources to think and reason
mathematically to pursue assumptions to· their logical conclusion
and to handle abstraction. It includes a way of doing things and the
ability and the attitude to formulate and solve problems. The
cognitive abilities like open mindedness problem solving and
reasoning plays an important role in the mathematics achievement
of a student.
But these cognitive abilities are not given enough emphasis
in mathematics & science teaching. Students who have difficulty
in mathematics are often those who cannot use problem solving
ability to solve the problems. They usually need help to improve
their problem solving ability to solve problems and think ·critically
is a valuable asset enhancing higher cognitive abilities.
