SIGNIFICANCE OF COGNITIVE STYLE FOR ACADEMIC ACHIEVEMENT IN MATHEMATICS

Cognitive style is considered to be a personality dimension that influences attitudes, values and social interaction. Cognitive Style refers to two parts of the brain i.e. left hemisphere and right hemisphere of the brain. The left brain hemisphere includes sequence, Time Analysis, Abstraction, Causation, Uniform, objective and Reason. Whereas right brain hemisphere includes simultaneous, Space,Synthesis, Concrete and many ways. In this article cognitive Style has five dimensions i.e. Integrated style, Intuitive Style, Split Style, Systematic Style and Undifferentiated style. The ministry of education should cautioned teachers about the importance of cognitive styles during teaching and learning process. The mathematics teacher should take importance of cognitive styles during preparing their lesson plan and teaching aids.