Effects of Ethnomathematics Approach on Students’ Achievement and Interest in Geometry and Mensuration

This study was designed to determine the efficacy of ethnomathematics approach on students’ achievement and interest in JSS1 geometry and mensuration. It also aimed at determining whether any of the sexes (male and female) benefitted more than the other from the teaching. The study employed non equivalent control group quasi experimental design. Four research questions and six hypotheses guided the study. The experimental and control groups were taught geometry and mensuration using ethnomathematics and conventional approaches respectively. Two researcher constructed instruments- Mathematics Achievement Test on Geometry and Mensuration (MATGM) and Mathematics Interest Inventory on Geometry and Mensuration (MIIGM) were used for data collection. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer the research questions while ANCOVA was used to test the null hypotheses at p