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THE ROLE OF MATHEMATICS EDUCATION IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF ENTREPRENEURIAL SKILLS AMONG SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENTS IN IKA SOUTH L.G.A OF DELTA STATE.

Omokaro Blessing and Nwanunu Peter

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Abstract This paper examines the role of mathematics education in the development of entrepreneurial skills among secondary school students. The population of the study was 650 JSS3 students from fifteen (15) public secondary schools in Ika South Local Government Area of Delta State. The technique used to select three (3) Secondary Schools was simple Random Sampling. All the students in the three (3) selected schools, making a total of One Hundred and Ninety-Five (195) JSS3 students were used as sample for the study. Three (3) research questions and two hypothesis guided the study. The collection of data were done using a self-constructed 21-item student questionnaires (SQ) with a reliability coefficient of 0.74 and analysed using Mean and Standard deviation for the research questions and t-test statistics for the hypothesis, tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study among others indicated that; Mathematic education plays a significant role in the development of entrepreneurial skills among JSS3 students, mathematical knowledge provides entrepreneurial skills acquisition, male and female student responses on the need of mathematical knowledge for entrepreneurial skills acquisition do not significantly differ. Against this background, it was recommended that; strategies should be put in place by government to intimate mathematics teachers at all level of educational systems of the role of mathematics education in the development of entrepreneurial skills among JSS3 students; qualified teachers should be employed to teach school mathematics that will boost students? mathematics knowledge and thereby bring about improvement in Nigeria economy among others. Keywords: Mathematics Education, Entrepreneurship Skills, Development.

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