Historically, learning Mathematics and teaching it to all students at the school stage has been motivated by the belief that a study of mathematics helps students to learn to reason and apply such reasoning to everyday problems. Most people today still believe that mathematics is all about computation. However, computation, for mathematicians, is merely a tool for comprehending structures, relationship and patterns of mathematical concepts, and therefore producing solutions for complex real life problems. This perspective of mathematicians has gained more attention and importance with rapid advancements in information and communication technologies. It has become necessity for people of all ages to reach, analyze, and apply the mathematical knowledge effectively and efficiently to be successful citizens in our information

age. It is believed that learning mathematics leads to learners' cognitive development. According to Tripathi (2010), Mathematics is one of the most useful and intriguing partition of human knowledge. Arithmetic ability includes the skills such as manipulating mathematical knowledge and concepts in ways that transform their meaning and implications. It allows students to interpret, analyze, synthesize, generalize, or hypothesize the facts and ideas of mathematics. Students with high arithmetic ability can engage in tasks such as solving complex problems, discovering new meanings and understanding, and arriving at logical conclusions. But students of today's generation encountered difficulties in their mathematical abilities and unable to analyze simple problems, interpret mathematical sentence and even to perform the fundamental operation of mathematics.