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| Evaluation of Mathematics Education in Developing Entrepreneurial Skills in Senior Secondary School in Kwara State
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JIMOH Kasali and ADEPOJU, Maryam Oluwatosin
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Abstract:
The study examined skills learnt in Mathematics that promotes entrepreneur skills in secondary school students; knowledge of mathematics that help in acquiring entrepreneurial skills among secondary school students; and Influence of student's type on their knowledge of entrepreneurial skills in mathematics. The study used descriptive research designs. The population for the study consisted all secondary schools students in kwara state while the target populations were secondary school students in Ilorin East Local Government Area. . A sample of 150 students was randomly sample from both public and private secondary schools in Ilorin East. The sample was calculated using Fishers (1995) which has ideal formula for targeted population. The instrument used for the study was questionnaire titled "questionnaire on effective mathematics education in developing entrepreneurial skills in senior secondary school in Ilorin East, Kwara State Nigeria" Questionnaire adapted from the study of Uka (2015). Cronbach Alpha (?) was used to test validity of the research instrument. The output gave reliability statistics which showed cronbach's alpha of 0.85. Research questions were answered using mean and standard deviation and all the hypotheses were tested using chi-square statistical analysis at 0.05 significance level. The results showed that majority of the respondents agreed that attributes of mathematical mind can promotes entrepreneurial skills in students as all the skills listed had a mean higher than the benchmark of 2.50; students agreed with the items 2, 3, 6, 9, 10, 11 and 12 but disagreed with items 1, 4, 5, 7 and 8 which that had mean less than the benchmark while others had a mean above the benchmark and there is no significant difference between secondary school students' entrepreneurial skills and knowledge of mathematics based on school type (2 = 3.904a, p= 0.272). The study concluded that attributes of mathematical mind can promotes entrepreneurial skills and students need knowledge of mathematics to really scale through in the acquisition of entrepreneurial skills.
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