Teacher's skills and perceptions towards the use of ICT in mathematics teaching

Abstract

This study is based on survey research design entitle "Teacher's skills and perception toward the use of ICT in teaching mathematics." The purpose of this research is to find out the perceived skills and perception of mathematics teachers towards the use of ICT in teaching mathematics. The sample of the study consisted from who teach Mathematics in community school of Kathmandu valley. The data were collected from questionnaire. For this study teachers were selected by simple random sampling method. The questionnaire was prepared on three parts which are teachers demographic, teacher's perceived skills on ICT and teacher's perception on ICT. The perceived skills of mathematics teachers measured in the four-point Likert scale. Similarly, the perception of mathematics teachers measured in the five-point Likert scale. The collected data was tabulated and analyzed by using SPSS software version 23.0 to get the value percentage, mean and standard deviation for first objectives, statistic chi-square value at 0.05 level of significance and percentage for second objectives.The study concludes that the use of ICT in mathematics teaching is increasing day by day and also, ICT provides great opportunity for school in developing and improving their teaching and learning processes. For the conceptual development of mathematics, one of the abstract subjects, the learning is more effective by the use of ICT. This study shows that 55% of respondents have been using ICT for 1 to 5 years and 26% of respondents have been using ICT for less than 1 years. So, using ICT in teaching mathematics was rarely used before COVID-19 pandemic. The physical classes were neglecting the use of ICT. After therapid spread of coronavirus, the school were start virtually. Then they started using ICT in teaching mathematics. The researcher found that teachers were skilled on word processor, spread sheet, presentation packages, Data base, search engines, communication, GeoGebra, printer, projectors and scanners, but they were unskilled on Mathematica, Desmos and SPSS. Also, concluded that mathematics teachers has positive perception towards use of ICT in teaching mathematics. ICT helps to develop teachers and students skills, teaching materials, classroom management and students achievement.So, this situation made us all to realize that we cannot escape away from the use of technology. Similarly, we cannot ignore the increasing demand as well as necessity of ICT in teaching and learning.