Saturday 15 August 2015

Effect of Teaching Aids in the Teaching of Mathematics

CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION

1.1.        Background of the Study

Learning means an individual’s developing a new knowledge, skill or attitude as a result of his/her interaction with his/her knowledge and environment. Learning may happen at any time. However what concerns the educators is the purposive
learning realized through instructional efforts. The way we plan the instruction has an effect both on what has been learnt and how an individual will use the things he/she has learnt. For this reason, teaching-learning process includes: selections, arrangement, transferring knowledge in a proper environment and interaction between this information and the individual. Learning environment means not only the place that instruction will occur but also the methods, instruments, equipments, and materials which will be used in transferring the knowledge and guiding the works of individual’s in learning process (Demirel, Yagci, Seferoglu, 2003).
Mathematics is involved in every discipline, trade and education. Everyday life activity directly or indirectly uses mathematics for its effectiveness. In the past, instruction in our school had been taught without using teaching aids because it was felt that the learner can do well without their use. But today, or in the modern days, it is not like that, it is there that this method of imparting knowledge cannot cater for the learners need adequately.
Mathematics being a subject involving then operation of figures and different complex formula and also practical course, it is necessary that it should be taught with relevance teaching aids to make its teaching and learning effective. The importance of teaching aids in the total education process cannot be over emphasized.
The Federal Government of Nigeria had adopted education as an instrument par excellence for effecting national development. If education has been adopted as the only tool that can solve the socio-economic problems of Nigeria than the adequate supply of effective teachers and teaching aids becomes the core of the educational problems because there is a direct link between the quality of education and the quality of teacher.  

The effect of teaching aids in the teaching of mathematics in schools is an issue that cannot be over looked. This is due to the single fact that mathematics acts as an integral part of the development of man, his environment following works and inventions of science and technology. 

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