Original Research Article
Year: 2020 | Month: March | Volume: 7 | Issue: 3 | Pages: 200-205
Impact of Geometer’s Sketch Pad on High School Students’ Performance in Mathematics
K Veena Latha
Associate Professor, St.Ann’s College of Education (Autonomous), Secunderabad – 500003
ABSTRACT
Mathematics has long been one of the most feared subjects among students. As such, educators have been constantly looking into different approaches to continue improving the transaction of this subject. This study seeks to investigate the impact of Geometers’ Sketchpad (GSP) – a dynamic geometrical software, in the teaching and learning of Mathematics among high school students. This study was conducted on 40 students who were divided into the control group and an experimental group. The control group received conventional teaching method while the experimental group was taught based on a GSP module designed to solve Triangles. A questionnaire was used to see the attitude and perception of students towards the usage of Geometers Sketch pad and an achievement test was administered to see its impact on students’ achievement. A descriptive analysis showed that most of the students agreed that the Geometer’s Sketchpad is a useful tool for learning Geometry. The findings from this study have indicated that the students perception towards the use of Geometer’s Sketchpad is positive, there is a need to improve the attitude of the students towards the use of Geometer’s Sketchpad since there is a considerable improvement in the scores of students in the achievement test after the use of Geometers Sketchpad in the teaching learning process.
Keywords: Geometers sketch pad, geometry, attitude, achievement
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