Extent of Readiness of Grade 10 Students for General Mathematics of Senior High School in Sorsogon City, Philippines

A state with citizens equipped with scientific and mathematical skills is on its way to industrialization. Equipping citizens with these skills needs effective science and mathematics education which can be achieved by putting into priority the education sector of a country. Republic Act No. 10533 paved the way for the implementation of the K to 12 Education in the Philippines. Senior High School (SHS) starts this June, 2016 and questions on readiness among schools, teachers and students are being raised. This descriptive – developmental research utilized unstructured interview and survey to the purposively selected 21 Grade 10 Math teachers and 350 randomly selected Grade 10 students of the Sorsogon City Division. The gathered data were treated statistically using frequency count, percentage and mean. Findings revealed that students are moderately ready on 17 out of 25 prerequisite competencies of General Mathematics and not ready on 9 of them. An over – all MPS of 40% is attained which means that they are moderately ready for SHS’s General Mathematics. There is an identified least mastered competency per content topic of General Mathematics and a set of Strategic Intervention Materials, AniMath is proposed as an intervention material in order to help the students master the least mastered competencies. Teachers should be aware of the specific prerequisite competencies of SHS’s General Mathematics and together with educational leaders, they should make sure that the prerequisite competencies are mastered before teaching the new competencies in order to ensure readiness.

Keywords: readiness, grade 10 students, general mathematics, senior high school, Descriptive- developmental, Sorsogon