Attitudes of Teachers and Studnets on Using Online Tools in Teaching and Learning Mathematics

Abstract

This study is entitled “Attitudes of teachers and students on using online tools in teaching and learning mathematics.” The purpose of this study is to identify teachers' and students' attitudes on using online tools in teaching and learning mathematics and to compare public and institutional school teachers' and students' attitudes. The data were collected by administrating questionnaire to 50 secondary school’s mathematics teachers and 103 students (from 15 Public and 9 institutional schools) of Dhading district by Accidental sampling method. The survey design was conducted to achieve the objectives of study. The questionnaire was prepared on the basis of four dimensions (Modes, ICT Knowledge, Access and Effectiveness). Attitudes of mathematics teachers and students on using online tools in teaching and learning mathematics were measured in five-point rating scale. The collected data were tabulated and analyzed by using SPSS software version 21.0 to get the value of chi-square test, percentage, mean and standard deviation and t-test for objective first and second respectively. By analyzing and interpretation of obtained data, the researcher has found that secondary mathematics teachers and students attitudes towards online tools are not satisfactory; however they are using different online tools in this pandemic situation of Covid-19. It is concluded that Institutional and Public school’s mathematics teachers has no significance difference in attitudes on using online tools in teaching and learning mathematics. Likewise, Institutional and Public school’s students as well as mathematics teachers and students also have no significance difference in attitudes on using online tools in teaching and learning mathematics. This shows that mathematics teachers and students have same attitudes on using online tools in teaching and learning mathematics.