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The conceptual understanding is the foundation of any kinds of subject centered learning for the students. Due to the conceptual understanding only, a student can develop correlation among various subject-branches and other subjects which remain with them. There are several surveys and research programmes which indicate that the students are very weak in their knowledge of Mathematics subject and have negative attitude towards it. In order to achieve in-depth knowledge in any subject, one has to have a conceptual clarity of it. For that researcher prepared 13 hours Programme based on instructional material to develop a conceptual understanding in the subject of Mathematics. The programme was based on 20 concepts. The pre-test(post-test) was developed by the researcher for the study to impact the programme on conceptual understanding in Mathematics at secondary school level.This is an experimental study.There were pre-test,treatment and post-test for the target group. For logical analysis and interpretation of data, t-test was used. Findings of the study suggested that the present instructional material in the subject of Mathematics was significantly effective for developing conceptual understanding in the students of class-9 at secondary school level. The results also suggest that the impact of the study material was same on boys and girls.
Conceptual understanding,Instructional material
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