MENTAL ABILITY ON HIGHER MATHEMATICS: LEARNING IN THE DIGITAL CLASSROOM

ABSTRACT

Although online teaching is not anymore new in the field of education, but it has become the trend in teaching during the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic. Countries also differ on online teaching implementation due to the strength and level of sophistication of their internet connectivity. That is why is, it very interesting to determine how students learn through online teaching in a third world countries such as Philippines. This quantitative study employed a descriptive design utilizing the tertiary students’ Mathematics grade during the full conduct of the online teaching. The data revealed that respondents’ mental ability in higher Mathematics was described as “satisfactory” in which they met the minimum competence with average score. In addition, gender did not also indicate a significant difference as a variable. No significant difference between their gender was also found out in the results. This finding points out that online teaching was still the best alternative mode of delivery in the height of the pandemic. Although it has been known that many Filipino students has no personal computers and laptops, most of these students utilized their cellular phone not only for personal use but for academic as well. Thus, this study recommends that teachers may continue employing online teaching or blended teaching to let the students learn on their own with the aid of technology.