CORRELATION OF COMPREHENSION SKILLS AND MATHEMATICAL ABILITY IN GEOMETRY OF THE STUDENTS OF NAVAL SCHOOL OF FISHERIES

This study determined the correlation of Comprehension Skills and Mathematical Ability of High School Students in Geometry of Naval School of Fisheries. The study utilized the descriptive correlation design as the main tool in data gathering technique. The profile of the respondents showed that female student-respondents in Geometry outnumbered the male respondents. Only few of the parent’s occupation were government employee and majority belonged to private employee. Most of the respondents spent time in reading last only for 1 hour or less 2 hours. Some did not even read for an hour. The comprehension score of student-respondents were very low and results revealed they really lack comprehension skills for the reason that their average grade in English was very low. Time spent in solving mathematical problem is significant to average grade in Geometry and the comprehension at 0.05 level of significance and is discovered to be highly significant to the mathematical score at 0.01 level of significance. The average grade in Math, Geometry and Comprehension score were highly correlated with each other at 0.01 level of significance.