Abstract
The purpose of this study is to discuss the teaching methods and their application in different branches of mathematics taught at secondary level in Pakistan. Teaching methods of mathematics include lecture, inductive, deductive, heuristic or discovery, analytic, synthetic, problem solving, laboratory and project methods. Teachers may adopt any method according to the specific unit of syllabus, available resources and number of students in a class. Different merits and demerits of teaching methods along with the relevance of each method to the appropriate branches of mathematics in Pakistani context are explained in this paper.