The study was carried out to assess the effects of cooperative, problem-solving and demonstration teaching methods on performance of secondary school students in Commerce in Kaduna State, Nigeria. The study had seven objectives, seven research questions and seven hypotheses. Related literature were reviewed. Quasi-experimental design was used for the study. The population was 6651Senior Secondary school commerce students. A sample of sixty (60) was used and it was gotten using purposive sampling technique. An instrument, tagged Commerce Achievement Test (CAT), was used in collecting data for the study. A pilot study was conducted and the reliability coefficient was 0.79. Mean and standard deviation were used to answer all the research questions. Simple regression was used to test hypotheses one to three, while t-test was used to test hypotheses four to six. Hypothesis seven was tested using ANOVA all the hypotheses were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The findings of the study revealed that there was significant difference between the Cooperative method of learning Commerce and lecture method which mean that cooperative method have effect on students' performance in commerce. It was revealed in the study that there was significant difference between the Problem-solving method of learning commerceand lecture method which means that problem solving method have effect on the performance of students taught commerce. In comparing the findings of groups one, two and group three it revealed in the study that there is significant different among the experimental group one, experimental group two and group three in the teaching learning of Commerce in the secondary schools in Kaduna State. Based on the findings, it was concluded that students performed better in Cooperative than Problem solving and Demonstration method in the Teaching learning of Commerce in Secondary Schools. Again, the method was found out to be gender friendly as the result from the test of hypotheses showed no difference existed between the performance of male and female students in the learning ofcommerce at the secondary schools. Based on the findings and conclusion, five recommendations were made, among which includeteachers in senior secondary schools should incorporate cooperative, problem and demonstration methods in their teaching of commerce to improve students' performance. The teachers of commerce in the senior secondary schools of Kaduna Stateshould be encouragedto expose students to the learning of commerce through these methods.