Factors affecting mathematics teachers’ use of teaching aids in facilitating Students learning: the case of jimma town secondary school Mathematics teachers
2017
Woldu Assefa | Teshome Tefera
This study was conducted to investigate factors affecting teacher’s use of teaching aids to facilitate students learning in Jimma town secondary schools. The sample for the study included 40 purposively eachers from the four secondary schools in Jimma town. A questionnaire that administered to solicit factors that affect teachers’ use of teaching aids in creating mathematical sense. Five types of questionnaires on (perspectives of teacher variables, time and cost perspectives, motivation and attitudes towards mathematics, learner qualities and the nature of teaching aids) were distributed to the sample secondary school mathematics their impacts. Percentage and descriptive statistics were applied to analyze the data. The results indicated that almost all teachers agree on the impacts factors such as (perspectives on teacher variables, time and cost perspectives, motivation and attitudes towards mathematics, learner qualities and the nature of teaching aids) on use of teaching aid to facilitate their students learning. Hence, school and teachers are expected to look for ways of using instructional arning in mathematics class. To over com the problem time and cost perspectives, the school and teachers may need to look for ways of using locally available resources. College of Education and Behavioral Sciences need to collaboratively work on raising secondary
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