Opinion Towards the Practices of E-Learning in Mathematics

Abstract

The present study “Opinion towards the practices of e-learning in Mathematics” is carry out to find the Existing situation and opinion of students and teachers towards e-learning in relation to improve student’s Mathematics achievement and analyzed/explain the effect of ICT in motivating students to learn Mathematics. The study adopted descriptive survey design and the information/data was collected by observation checklist, questionnaire and FGD. An observation checklist for 20 school administrators. Two sets of questionnaire are prepared where one set of questionnaire for 200 students and another set of questionnaire for 100 Mathematics teachers in Kathmandu district. The collected data were organized, tabulated, analyzed and interpreted by using the statistical tools such as percentage and χ2 –test at 0.05 level of significance. FGD among four groups of teachers each group including 8 members. The collected information were categorized and descriptively by transcribing translating, and connecting with related theory. The result of the study showed that the schools have sufficient ICT tools with suitable existing situation for teaching and learning Mathematics. Both the teachers and students have positive opinion towards the practices of e-learning in Mathematics. All the teachers and students agreed that the ICT tools are very useful for higher achievement as well as higher study by providing basic concept with motivation.