SEEU Review vol. 6 Nr. 2 (pdf) - South East European University

SEEU Review Volume 6, No. 2, 2010Graph no.2 shows the students’ success in mathematics. We can see that61.36% of students had an excellent grade whereas only 9.5% hadsatisfactory.Graph 2: Scores in mathematics in secondary schoolAs mentioned above, the students took a test in order to show theirprevious knowledge in mathematics from secondary school, as this would behelpful in organizing the math classes at the BA Faculty afterwards. The testshowed very poor results. Namely, the average out of 100 points was only10.16. This might be due to fact that the test was unannounced in advanceand that the students are not prepared to implement their knowledge indifferent real life settings. Based on this test, we divided up the students intosmall groups (104 students), whereas with the rest the traditional teachingapproach was applied.The evaluation was realized on a continuous basis, based on thefollowing report.161