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EFFECT OF GEOGEBRA AND PAPER/PENCIL TO THE TEACHING AND LEARNING OF SIMULTANEOUS LINEAR EQUATION IN SOME SELECTED JUNIOR SECONDARY SCHOOLS AT ZARIA KADUNA STATE OF NIGERIA

ALIYU, J.

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Abstract This study examined the effect of GeoGebra and paper/ pencil on the teaching and learning of mathematics. The population comprised four selected junior secondary schools in Zaria, Kaduna state of Nigeria and constituted a total sampling of 50 students for experimental as well as 50 students for the control. Experimental group were interacted with different kind of GeoGebra tools to solve problems in Simultaneous linear equations. The control group was exposed to the traditional method (by using paper/pencil) and taught the same topic. The experiment lasted for the period of eight weeks. Instrument used for data collection is students test in mathematics (STM). Moreover, data collected were analyzed by the use of SPSS software (version 18.0 However, the result showed that there is considerable variation between before-test and after-test performances. Consequently, the result in the control group performed slightly better in (STM) than the experimental group at the pre-test of both groups before intervention. The result indicate that t- value is -1.63 while p-value is 0.001<0.05 at level of significant and the decision is rejected which indicate that both groups have similar Mathematical abilities before the treatment was administered. Besides, the experimental group performed better in (STM) than the control group at the post-test of both groups after intervention. Statistical evidence from this null hypothesis revealed that the t- value is 6.81 while p-value is 0.001<0.05 at level of significant, indicating that the t-value is less than p-value. This implies that the decision is retained. The study recommends among others that Government and critical stakeholders should encourage and support teacher training so as mathematics teacher can brings the desire changes to the full implementation of ICT into secondary schools. keywords: GeoGebra; paper/ pencil; Simultaneous linear equations and students test in mathematics (STM).

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