As a matter of fact, mathematics has a history that is long enough to the extent that it is safe to say that is started with the history of mankind when consider that the concept of the figure and the way of calculating began to develop from the prehi...
As a matter of fact, mathematics has a history that is long enough to the extent that it is safe to say that is started with the history of mankind when consider that the concept of the figure and the way of calculating began to develop from the prehistoric period. Today there is no fields that are not affected by mathematics, such as finance, information technology and national defense and the like. The natural science as well as the culture of arts and sciences, and social science fundamentally rely on the mathematics.
The high technology in the 21st century is getting more and more relying on the model of mathematics which is the very indispensable for the high speed calculation that is required for the realization of the technology. Despite the crucial role that the mathematics is playing as a study or a science, most of the students find mathematics boring, difficult and troublesome. So teachers have to develop the optimal materials for teaching by acquiring themselves abundant knowledge, so as to let students adopt interest and enjoyment in that subject.
Therefore, as part of efforts to design a teaching material that applied the ICT(Information Communication & Technology) to include those excessively broad and difficult concept of mathematics in the class so as for students to get more familiar to and confident of the mathematics, tests involving 2nd graders in a high school in the city Chuncheon was conducted in advance for assessing the school performance, and the experiment group and the comparison group were selected.(Each class room has 32 students) In order to solve the problem of this study, a draft was prepares that is based on the introduction of ICT and two classes of 2nd graders of the high school were chosen as experiment class and comparison class respectively.
The study conducted a validity test of both groups and found how the distribution of the grade turned out. The experiment class used the class material that used the ICT and the comparison class used mainly the contents of the textbook during the class. After the class finished in both groups, the students were given the ex post fact test for assessing their grade to substantiate the validity in the difference of the average of both groups. The test was given before and after the class is over for both groups to verify the difference in the perception that might come from the introduction of ICT in class. And t-verification was conducted to substantiate the possible difference. The level of the validity was decided as 5%.
In order to verify these research problems, we used the unit exponential ㆍlogarithmic function and experimented 64 second grade students from two classes.
The process of research based on the events which appear from the background of theory, preseding research, and the actual condition analysis. In order to improve student`s attitude of study, we made an ICT application teaching-learning plan. We checked student`s attitude of study through the study accomplishment evaluation and surveys.
Thus, in this study, the following two research goals were established to analyze the impact of teaching and learning to the student's academic achievement and learning aptitude by searching for the teaching skill for the mathematic class implementing ICT that towards the concept and the application of EXPONEN· LOG EQUATION and INEQUALITY based on the chapter of EXPONENT· LOG FUNCTION
(1) Are there significant differences in student`s academic achievement between the experimental group who had teaching activities using the ICT and the comparison group?
(2) Are there significant differences in student`s attitude between the experimental group who had teaching activities using the ICT and the comparison group?
The result from the performing the classes which were dated from 2007, 4, 30 to 2007, 5, 25, toward 64 students in 2 classes of 2nd grade with EXPONENT, LOG FUNCTION and GRAPH chapter in highschool Math I to conduct these research goals is as follow.
First, no significant difference was observed in student`s academic achievement by area between the experimental group and the comparison group.(p=0.05) This chapter was rather complicated to prove the student's understanding and problem solving skill within short researching period.
Second, significant differences were observed in the results of testing the high and low sub-groups in the experimental group and the high and low sub-groups in the comparison group, but not in the results of the descriptive test. The high class group, particularly, showed a significant difference with significance level of 0.05. This revealed the fact that the high class students can approach the questions far more easily with clear explanation of the concept due to their superior problem solving skill. Lower class students, however, gave up trying even if they knew the question owing to the lack of confidence while they had chances to participate the classes actively.
Third, in academic achievement test, there was a meaningful difference with significance level of 0.05 between the experimental group and comparison group among the 4 categories of concept, understanding, drawing graph, and application. This result is gained from the fact that students who solved applied questions belonged to the high class and that its average score rose.
Fourth, there's no meaningful difference with significance level of 0.05 between the experimental group and comparison group in mathematical attitude per sector. In case of experimental group, however, showed increased class-participation rate through implementing ICT and higher interest toward math after the class.