Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics

The use of technology in teaching and learning mathematics has become more essential especially with the availability of new mathematics software or softwares that are downloadable for free from the internet. This paper looked into students’ motivation when using the V-Transformation courseware and...

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Main Authors: Abu Bakar, Kamariah, Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi, Wong, Su Luan, Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani
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Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2010
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author Abu Bakar, Kamariah
Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Wong, Su Luan
Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani
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Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Wong, Su Luan
Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani
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description The use of technology in teaching and learning mathematics has become more essential especially with the availability of new mathematics software or softwares that are downloadable for free from the internet. This paper looked into students’ motivation when using the V-Transformation courseware and an open source software, GeoGebra. The instrument used in this study was based on the ARCS model which consisted of attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction components. Finding showed that there was a significant difference in the students’ attention using V-Transformation (M=4.05, SD= .811) compared to using GeoGebra (M=3.66, SD= .445; t(69)=2.514, p=0.014). Significant difference also was identified for the relevance component after using the V-Transformation (M=3.89, SD= .609) and GeoGebra (M=3.52, SD= .559; t(69)=2.641, p=0.001). However, no significant differences were found in students’ confidence and satisfaction using V-transformation and also GeoGebra software. For overall motivation, the finding showed that there was a significant difference between the motivation of students using V-transformation (M=3.78; SD = 0.403) as compared to the GeoGebra (M= 3.50; SD= 0.458; t(69)= 2.704, p=0.009). This finding suggested that technology could be used to motivate students in teaching and learning mathematics.
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spelling upm-481072016-08-04T08:56:59Z http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48107/ Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics Abu Bakar, Kamariah Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi Wong, Su Luan Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani The use of technology in teaching and learning mathematics has become more essential especially with the availability of new mathematics software or softwares that are downloadable for free from the internet. This paper looked into students’ motivation when using the V-Transformation courseware and an open source software, GeoGebra. The instrument used in this study was based on the ARCS model which consisted of attention, relevance, confidence and satisfaction components. Finding showed that there was a significant difference in the students’ attention using V-Transformation (M=4.05, SD= .811) compared to using GeoGebra (M=3.66, SD= .445; t(69)=2.514, p=0.014). Significant difference also was identified for the relevance component after using the V-Transformation (M=3.89, SD= .609) and GeoGebra (M=3.52, SD= .559; t(69)=2.641, p=0.001). However, no significant differences were found in students’ confidence and satisfaction using V-transformation and also GeoGebra software. For overall motivation, the finding showed that there was a significant difference between the motivation of students using V-transformation (M=3.78; SD = 0.403) as compared to the GeoGebra (M= 3.50; SD= 0.458; t(69)= 2.704, p=0.009). This finding suggested that technology could be used to motivate students in teaching and learning mathematics. Elsevier 2010 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://psasir.upm.edu.my/id/eprint/48107/1/48107.pdf Abu Bakar, Kamariah and Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi and Wong, Su Luan and Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani (2010) Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics. Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, 2 (2). pp. 4650-4654. ISSN 1877-0428 http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1877042810007846 10.1016/j.sbspro.2010.03.744
spellingShingle Abu Bakar, Kamariah
Mohd Ayub, Ahmad Fauzi
Wong, Su Luan
Ahmad Tarmizi, Rohani
Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
title Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
title_full Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
title_fullStr Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
title_full_unstemmed Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
title_short Exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
title_sort exploring secondary school students' motivation using technologies in teaching and learning mathematics
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