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General Objectives of Teaching Mathematics

General Objectives of Teaching Mathematics

at Upper Primary Level and Secondary Level


General Objectives of Teaching Mathematics 

at Upper Primary Level

The students will be able to:

  1. Consolidate the mathematical knowledge and skills acquired at the primary level and acquire knowledge and understanding of the terms, symbols, concepts, principles, processes of mathematics.
  2. Develop adequate skills of drawing, measuring, estimating, demonstrating and model making.
  3. Develop abilities to consult and use mathematical and statistical tables.
  4. Acquire knowledge and understanding of practical geometry, simple menstruation and elementary algebra.
  5. Develop abilities to read and interpret data from statistical graphs.
  6. Apply mathematical knowledge and skills to solve common problems that occur in daily life and other simple mathematical problems
  7. Develop interest in mathematics.
  8. Appreciate the contributions made by mathematicians in general and Indian mathematicians in particular.

General Objectives of Teaching Mathematics 

at the Secondary Level

Students will be able to:

  1. Consolidate the mathematical knowledge and skills acquired at the upper primary level.
  2. Acquire knowledge and understanding of the terms, symbols, concepts, principles, processes and proofs.
  3. Develop mastery of basic algebraic skills.
  4. Develop drawing skills.
  5. Develop ability to write/interpret algorithms for problem-solving.
  6. Develop interest in mathematics and participate in mathematical club activities, quiz competitions, mathematics Olympiads at state and national levels
  7. Apply mathematical knowledge and skills to solve real life mathematical problems
  8. Apply mathematics by way of representing data in the form of graphs and charts, formulating and solving data based problems pertaining to actual data on population, agriculture, environment, and industry, physical, biological and social sciences, engineering, defense, etc.
  9. Develop abilities to analyze, think and reason; and study mathematics systematically as a discipline.
  10. Develop the ability to communicate the mathematical ideas precisely.
  11. Develop necessary skills to use computers and mathematical software in learning and solving problems.
  12. Develop reverence and respect towards great mathematicians for their contributions to the field of mathematics.
  13. Develop appreciation for its brevity, preciseness, abstractness, structure and its deductive nature.

Reference : Pedagogy of Mathematics, by NCERT

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