A STUDY OF EFFECT OF CONCEPT ATTAINMENT MODEL ON ACHIEVEMENT OF GEOMETRIC CONCEPTS OF VIII STANDARD RURAL AND URBAN STUDENTS OF AURANGABAD DISTRICT

The Objective of the Current study is to study the effect of concept attainment model and traditional method of teaching geometry on the geometric concept achievement of rural and urban students of Aurangabad district. Mathematics is the core subject in high school curriculum and geometry is the core of mathematics. Because of the abstract and conceptual nature of geometry it requires special method of teaching. It has been felt that in spite of strenuous efforts of mathematics teacher, students fail to grasp the certain concepts of the subject which lead disinterest among students towards mathematics in general and geometry in particular. Experimental research method was used for present study. Tool used for the research self prepared geometric concept lesson transcripts of geometry and lesson plans of traditional method and for post test standardized ‘Geometric concept test’ by S.C. Gakhar. The present study reveals that there is a significant difference between concept attainment model (CAM) and traditional method on the achievement of students in understanding of geometric concepts. Of these methods concept attainment model is more effective than traditional method. And students significantly differ in their concept achievement interestingly there is no significant difference in rural and urban students when taught by traditional method