Improving students performance in solving problems on equation of conic sections through polya's approch

According to the National Mathematics Advisory Panel (2008), the main purpose for teaching and learning mathematics is to develop the ability of the learner to solve wide variety of both simple and complex mathematics in their daily lives. The study focused in improving the competency of conic sections which is taught in Grade 11 Science Technology Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) strand, Academic Track. The basis of the researcher in choosing the competency is based on the low performance for the past years. This action research utilized the Pretest – Posttest Research Design. The pretest was administered to the Grade 11 STEM (Pythagoras) to determine their prior knowledge while the posttest was used to measure the effectiveness of Polya's Problem Solving approach. This study was conducted for the First Quarter, Week 1, Day 2 for school year 2019–2020 at Linao National High School particularly in the students of Grade 11 STEM (Pythagoras). The learners are given 20 items teacher made test which was based from the constructed table of specification as a pretest and parallel teacher made test as posttest. The test was checked and the results were interpreted. The results were utilized to determine if the approach is effective in improving the performance of Grade 11 STEM (Pythagoras) in solving problems on equation of conic sections.