BAYUGAN NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL

Narra Avenue, Poblacion, Bayugan City

Readiness of Grade 10 Students in Terms of Solving Conic Problems in Senior High

A. Rationale
Entering senior high school you need to really decide for your future so that you
don’t waste your 2 years in a field that you don’t want. If you’re planning to enter the
Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics be sure that you are planning to
take-up medical or mathematical fields in college.
One of the lessons you need to face here is the lessons about conic section.
Conic section, also called conic, in geometry, any curve produced by the intersection
of a plane and a right circular cone. Depending on the angle of the plane relative to
the cone, the intersection is a circle, an ellipse, a hyperbola, or a parabola. Special
(degenerate) cases of intersection occur when the plane passes through only the apex
(producing a single point) or through the apex and another point on the cone
(producing one straight line or two intersecting straight lines). (C.M. Taisbak, 2019)
Conic section has 4 sub-topics, the circle, the ellipse, the hyperbola and lastly
the parabola. A circle is a type of line. Imagine a straight line segment that is bent
around until its ends join. Then arrange that loop until it is exactly circular - that is, all
points along that line are the same distance from a center point. The ellipse is a plane
curve such that the sums of the distances of each point in its periphery from two fixed
points, the foci, are equal. It is a conic section formed by the intersection of a right
circular cone by a plane that cuts the axis and the surface of the cone. Parabola, a
special curve, shaped like an arch. Any point on a parabola is at an equal distance
from a fixed point (the focus), and a fixed straight line (the directrix). Hyperbola, the
set of points in a plane whose distances to two fixed points in the plane have a
constant difference; a curve consisting of two distinct and similar branches, formed by
the intersection of a plane with a right circular cone when the plane makes a greater
angle with the base than does the generator of the cone.
Many of the students in BNCHS- SHS find hard times in solving conic sections
in Pre-Calculus because in junior high school even though conics is introduced to
them it is just an introduction of conics and not the broader solving problem solution
about it. So, the researchers want to conduct a survey about how much they know
about conic section. In order for them to help and give recommendations to the
students on how to be prepare and to be ready for the lessons in Senior High School
especially in solving conic sections problem.
 BAYUGAN NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
Narra Avenue, Poblacion, Bayugan City

B. Research Problem
1. Do Grade 10 students are ready for conic section as a lesson in Senior High
School?
2. Do the lessons assimilated in Grade 10 will help incoming Senior High School
students to be geared up in their upcoming topic about conic section?
3. In what way should learning helps the students accumulate conic section?

C. Hypothesis

Along with the statement of the questions, the this hypothesis will be tested of its
significance:

 The student’s think that they are ready to face the lessons about conics.

D. Procedure
The researchers will provide a likert scale questionnaires among classrooms inside of
the campus of BNCHS. There will be guidelines for the researchers to be explained in
class before the questionnaires was disseminated.
In addition, the researchers will also provide an open ended questions that is related to
conic sections. The respondents will be allowed to work through the questionnaires at
their own pace until they completely answer the questions provided.

E. Data Analysis
This study uses a descriptive type of research to determine whether the students of
Bayugan National Comprehensive High School –Grade 10 students are ready or not
yet ready to face the lessons about conic section in senior high school, especially the
students who are planning to enter STEM strand.

F. Bibliography
(1) Akopyan, A.V.; Zaslavsky, A.A. (2007). Geometry of Conics. American
Mathematical Society.
(2) Wilson, W.A.; Tracey, J.I. (1925), Analytic Geometry (Revised ed.), D.C.
Heath and Company
(3) Downs, J.W. (2003) [1993], Practical Conic Sections: The geometric
properties of ellipses, parabolas and hyperbolas
 BAYUGAN NATIONAL COMPREHENSIVE HIGH SCHOOL
Narra Avenue, Poblacion, Bayugan City

Readiness of Grade 10 Students in Terms of Solving Conic Problems in Senior High

Bayugan National Comprehensive High School- STEM

Researchers

Alen, Hannah G.

Arquiola, Katrina Kaye A.

Austria, Katherene May

Bongato, James R.

Escartin, Haddasha M.

Palangan, Marjorie S.

2020