It is believed that the availability and adequate use
of teaching aids could be of great impact, yielding positive results, while its
non availability and moderate use could lead to poor performance of students in
a teaching and learning situation.
The main purpose of this study is to find out if the
availability and effective use of mathematics teaching aids will improve and
motivate the student’s performance in mathematics.
1.1.
Research Questions
The research questions which the study attempts to
answer are as follows:
(1) What are the attitudes of prospective secondary school
mathematics teachers towards instructional or teaching aids in a lesson?
(2) Is there any significant difference in the attitude of
prospective secondary school mathematics teachers’ pre and post instructional
aids in a lesson?
(3) What kind of things affects the attitudes of
prospective secondary school mathematics teachers towards teaching materials
and lesson?
1.2.
Research Hypothesis
The following hypotheses were formulated to facilitate
the study.
i)
There is no
significant effect between teacher’s experience on instructional aids and
students academic performance in mathematics.
ii)
There is no
significant effect between teacher’s academic qualification and student’s
performance in mathematics.
iii)
There is no
significant effect between teacher’s knowledge of subject matter and senior
secondary school student’s academic performance in mathematics.
1.3.
Scope of the Study
The study is intended to cover secondary schools
within Warri South Local Government Area of Delta State.
The following schools will be sample because they have
written the West African Secondary School Certificate Examination (WASSCE).
These includes:
(1) Essi College, Warri
(2) Dore Numa College, Warri
(3) Supreme College, Warri
(4) Lord’s and Kings Academy, Warri
(5) Classical International School, Warri.
1.4.
Significance of the Study
It has been
postulated that an effectiveness teaching and learning process require the maximum
use of teaching aids. Findings from this research would help mathematics
teachers perhaps make necessary adjustment towards improving or altering their
teaching method in mathematics and thus will go a long way in helping to
improve the performance of students in mathematics tests and examination.
This work could also reveal the crucial problem facing
the provision and use of teaching aids in the teaching and learning of
mathematics and the solution of some of these problems in order to improve the
standard of mathematics teaching and learning. This research work is also
beneficial to students of mathematics because a lesson with instructional
materials remove abstraction and make understanding easier thereby enhancing
huge success on the part of both students and teachers.
It will help to increase literature, it will enable
ministry of education, curriculum planners and parents to know some of the
problems confronting the teaching and learning of mathematics in schools and
make appropriate solution to the problem.
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