Integration of ICT in Teaching Mathematics: Student's Perspective

Abstract

The integration of information and technology (ICT) has become essential in teaching learning process especially in mathematics. This research is based on mixed design entitled, "Integration of ICT in Teaching Mathematics; Student's Perspective." The main purpose of this research was to explore the perspectives of students and to compare the perspectives of students as their gender regarding integration of ICT in teaching mathematics. To achieve these purposes a set of questionnaire was prepared containing 25 statements categorizing on the basis of five dimension of Bloom's taxonomy (receiving, responding, valuing, organizing, and characterizing) for 100 samples (75 boys and 25 girls) from Tribhuvan University Kirtipur, Kathmandu. The data were collected by Likert's five point rating scale and analyzed with the help of SPSS software 21.0 to get value of statistics chi-square, percentage, mean, standard deviation and t-test for objective first and second respectively. The interview was also conducted on four student selected by random sampling to make data more valid. The findings; mean value of boys' is 3.72 with standard deviation 0.52 and that of girls is 3.24 with standard deviation 0.31. In comparison of boys and girls perspectives the calculated t-value was 5.58 which is greater than tabulated value 1.96. So, null hypothesis is rejected and alternate hypothesis is accepted which shows that there significance difference between the perspectives of boys and girls students. By the analysis and interpretation of obtained data it is concluded that the students have positive perspective about the integration of ICT in teaching mathematics. There is significance difference between the perspectives of boys and girls students towards the integration of ICT in teaching mathematics as it increases students learning ability, willingness, participation and eases to; prepare assignment, receive feedback from teacher as well as it develops communication skill and makes classroom interactive, also it provides; independence & autonomy to the learner, knowledge about the utility of mathematics with collaborative and e-learning environment.