The main purpose of this study was to determine the effect of Bar Model Method (BMM) as a teaching strategy on the students’ mathematics problem solving performance across levels of anxiety after they have been exposed to the treatment. It utilized the single group pretest-posttest pre-experimental design involving one intact class composed of 32 grade eight students in Casimiro A. Ynares Sr. Memorial National High School, Taytay, Rizal. The sample was chosen using purposive sampling technique. The study was conducted for four weeks during the fourth quarter of school year 2019-2020. In the conduct of the study, seven research instruments were utilized, namely, the BMM Lesson Guides, the Mathematics Problem Solving Test (MPST), the Rubric for scoring the MPST, the Mathematics Anxiety Questionnaire (MAQ), the Students’ Learning Experiences Survey (SLES) Questionnaire, the Classroom Observation Guide (COG), and the Reflection Sheet (RS). The result of the paired samples t-test revealed that there is a significant difference between the pretest and posttest scores of the students in the MPST. This indicates that the students had better mathematics problem solving performance after their exposure to BMM. The result of the independent samples t-test showed that there is a significant difference between the MPST posttest scores across levels of mathematics anxiety. Students with low level of anxiety performed better than the students with high level of anxiety in the MPST. The responses of the students in the SLES indicated a positive benefit in learning and solving word problems in mathematics. In light of these results, this study concluded that the use of BMM tends to improve students’ mathematics problem solving performance, students with low mathematics anxiety performed better after their exposure to BMM, and students had positive experiences on the use of BMM as a teaching strategy. They found it easy to use and made them better problem solvers.

Authors:
Reynaldo Resultan, Casimiro A. Ynares Sr. Memorial National High School, Philippines

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Reynaldo Resultan is currently teaching secondary Mathematics at Casimiro A. Ynares Sr. Memorial National High School in the Philippines. He holds a New Mexico Level Three-A Instructional Leader License (Grades 6-12,Mathematics Endorsement)in the US.

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