Influence of GeoGebra on Interest of Junior Secondary School Students in Mathematics in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated the influence of GeoGebra application on interest of junior secondary students in Mathematics in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The study adopted a pretest, posttest quasi experimental design. The population consisted of 13,157 Junior Secondary two (JS2) students made up of 5,876 males and 7,281 females. Two schools were purposively sampled and simple random sampling technique (toss of coin) was used in selecting two intact classes of Junior Secondary two students of 2018/2019 academic session for experimental and control groups. The research was guided by two research questions and two hypotheses. one validated instruments of Mathematics Interest Scale with reliability coefficient of 0.85 was used for data collection. The research questions were answered by descriptive statistics; mean and standard deviation while the hypotheses were tested using Analysis of Covariance (ANCOVA) statistic at p < 0.05 level of significance. The findings revealed a significant difference between the interest of the experimental group and control group in favour of the experimental group. It also revealed that the use of GeoGebra is clearly independent of gender. Based on the result of the findings,it was recommended that Curriculum planers should incorporate the use of GeoGebra instructional package in restructuring Mathematics curriculum in Nigeria.