Effectiveness of Geogebra in Teaching Circle at Grade X: A Quasi- Experimental Study

Abstract

This study entitled “Effectiveness of GeoGebra in Teaching Circles at Grade X: A Quasi-Experimental Study”. The purpose of this study was to investigate effectiveness of GeoGebra in teaching Circles at grade X and to explore the perception of students in teaching Circles by using GeoGebra software. The effectiveness was measured by comparing the achievement of the students taught by using GeoGebra software and without using GeoGebra software in virtual learning environment out of 28/25 students. The research was based on constructivist view of learning and the design of this study was quasi-experimental design. To gain the motto of this study the researcher adopted pre-test and post-test non-equivalent control group design. Researcher used experimental design and selected two schools from the Makawanpur District. The researcher chose grade X, 28 students of Shree Sharada Secondary School, Makawanpur as the experimental group and 25 students of Shree Janak Secondary School, Makawanpur as the Control group. For the data collection researcher used Mathematics achievement test and questionnaire. The collected data were analyzed by using mean, standard deviation and t-test for quantitative data and for qualitative data descriptive and analytic methods were used. The findings of this research showed that there is significant difference between the achievement of students taught by using GeoGebra software and conventional method of teaching mathematics in virtual learning environment. GeoGebra increase the participation of students in teaching and learning activities. Students were very excited for learning mathematics by using GeoGebra software. GeoGebra was very useful for visualization of mathematics and supportive to the students in revision. GeoGebra software is very useful and helpful in teaching ix

learning. The conclusion of this research is that the GeoGebra software needs to use at secondary level for meaningful and effective mathematics teaching learning in virtual learning environment. The result of this study indicated that students in the experimental group have better achievement then control group. In addition, a five point Likert type of scale was used to elicit student’s perception on the use of GeoGebra. Result of the questionnaire responses indicates a positive perception of using GeoGebra in Mathematics learning.