Effectiveness of Geogebra in Teaching Geometry
Date
2020
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Department of Mathematics Education
Abstract
This study entitled “Effectiveness of GeoGebra in Teaching Geometry” is an
experimental research. The objectives of this study were to compare the achievement of
students taught by GeoGebra assisted teaching method and conventional teaching method
on Parallelogram at grade IX, and to identify the students perception towards GeoGebra
software in teaching Parallelogram. The research was based on constructivist view of
learning. A pre-test and post-test of quasi-experimental research design was used to find
the effectiveness of GeoGebra on student’s achievement. Researcher used conventional
sampling and selected two schools from the Kathmandu district. For the research purpose,
I selected 26 students from Divya Gyan Secondary School (Experimental group) and
another 26 students from Jaljala Shishu Sadan Secondary School (Control group). For the
data collection, I used mathematical achievement test and a set of questionnaire related to
Likert five point scales with observation note. The mathematics achievement test was
used to fulfill the first objective; i.e. comparing the achievement of the students taught by
using GeoGebra software and traditional method in parallelogram. The set of
questionnaire was used for second objective; i.e. analyzing the students view on
GeoGebra in learning parallelogram.
The results indicated that there was a significant difference between the average
achievement of students taught by using GeoGebra and without using GeoGebra on post-
test. The finding illustrated that the students in the experimental group performed better
when using GeoGebra than the control group with the traditional teaching method.
Additionally, a set of questionnaire related to Likert scale was used to explore the
students view about GeoGebra assisted teaching in learning parallelogram. This
questionnaire was administered to only experimental group. The result of questionnaire
shows that, students have positive perception about GeoGebra software in learning
parallelogram of geometry.
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Geogebra, Teaching method