Did you ever notice in your high school and college days who excel more in Math subjects? Boys or girls? Do you know that in the Philippines, women do better than men?
Two consecutive studies of the Trends in International Science and Mathematics Study (TIMSS) consistently showed that Filipina students excel more in mathematics than their male counterparts.
In the 2003 TIMSS Philippine Report for Grade 8 Mathematics, it was shown that Philippine girls were “significantly better” than Philippine boys, overall and in the items of Number, Algebra, and Data.
TIMSS 2003 is the third in a series of studies which offers a state-of-the-art assessment of student achievement in science and mathematics at the fourth and eighth grade levels The data provided by TIMSS are useful for participating countries to reassess their programs in mathematics and science, and to examine and revise existing practices in curricular provision, textbook design, teacher preparation, school organization, and instructional practice.
The study also showed that in terms of average percent correct score by cognitive domain, Filipina students bested the males in items involving Knowing Facts and Procedures and Reasoning by a difference of four percent and two percent, respectively. Both boys and girls performed equally on items involving Using Concepts and Solving Routine Problems. Filipino students were better by a difference of one percent in Geometry, they are equal in Measurement but the girls performed better than the boys in Number, Algebra, and Data by a difference of three, four, and two percent, respectively.
An earlier study by TIMSS shows the same outcome in relation to performance of Filipina students as against the opposite sex. In TIMSS-Repeat, which was done in 1999, Filipina students “performed relatively better” than the boys in all areas of mathematics. “In three content areas and overall performance, Filipino girls did better than Filipino boys,” the TIMSS-Repeat study said. Filipino girls performed well in Fractions and Number Sense; Data Representation, Analysis and Representation; and Algebra. “In Measurement and Geometry, Filipino girls did as well as Filipino boys,” the study added.
This is in contrast to international studies showing that male students are better in mathematics than females, except in algebra.
Last year, 118 science and science and technology oriented schools from the 16 regions in the Philippines is took part in the TIMSS-Advanced aimed at gauging the performance of students in the country in relation to advanced science and mathematics.
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Source: mb.com.ph
Pandan is a 2nd class municipality in the province of Catanduanes, Philippines. According to the 2007 census, it has a population of 19,005 people in 3,181 households.
HISTORY
Formerly the town site was located some two kilometers away south of the present site. Then the people were disturbed by constant depredation of bandits coming from other places.
The present site has been chosen because it was near the sea and the fishermen found it very convenient for their trade, however, being near the sea, it was vulnerable to Moros who always come to get their belongings or even capture some people.
As a defense against such moro raids, the people planted pandan shrubs close to each other to form a formidable defense against invaders. When the Spaniards came they found the plants around the poblacion in great abundance. When asked what the name of the shrubs was, the people told them that they were pandan shrubs. Thus, the Spaniards called the place Pandan.
The municipality lies on the northern tip of the province, 96 kilometers from the capital town of Virac. Bounded on the south by the municipality of Caramoran, on the west by the Maqueda Channel, on the east by the municipality of Bagamanoc and on the north by the Pacific Ocean. It has a total land area of 11,990 hectares. This is a town of 17,096 friendly and hospitable people, to which 99% are Roman Catholic.
Of the 26 barangays that comprise the municipality, four of which actually form the town proper, which are Libod, the biggest barangay in terms of population, Napo, Pandan del Sur and Pandan del Norte. The rest are found usually near the seashore. The rest being an inland barangays.
The municipality does not only boast of the natural beauties, it has which are the Parway, Mangbang, Parola beaches, the Hinik-Hinik falls (Hinik-hinik is a local term for rain shower) and Minaipit falls, but especially of its being a hometown of Senators, Congressman, Governor, Cardinal and Ambassador.
The people of Pandan are generally peace loving, God fearing and are happy people. Everyone in the community is a brother, a sister and a friend where the products of which could be shared even food itself without thought of having it repaid or reciprocated. Visitors are offered the comforts that the family could afford even it means that the owner should lay on the floor just to make the visitor eased at home by using the “papag”. And that is not enough, before going home; products of their yard would be wrapped for you to bring in your family plus a bunch of cockling chickens.
During celebrations, immediate neighbors are invited bringing among the whole members of the family and this seemed to be incomplete without tuba drinking and little dancing. Pantomina is a long cherished dance that never changes with time despite of the current dance and music. Pandananons has a series of collected pantomina songs which are now famous composed locally, of course it is not only the above songs, Pandananons used to compose, for evidence of which that gained popularity was a song composed by the late Mr. Alfredo dela Rosa, former Municipal Secretary of the Sangguniang Bayan of Pandan, entitled “Islang Catandungan”. This song won first place in the regional contest in Sorsogon sometime on the late 60’s.
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