ICT Enhanced Instruction in Mathematics Sprucing Up Students’ Achievement

Abstract

Mathematics is treated as one of the most important subjects but along with it, it has the most dreadful effect on students. Students view Mathematics as complex, dull, boring, and stereotyped. The National Policy on Education 1986 alluded that “Mathematics should be visualized as the vehicle to train a child, to think, reason, analyze and to articulate logically. There is a shift in treating mathematics education as an instrument for National development as well as the development of a child’s abilities.” For attaining this objective, ICT is phenomenal. The research shows that ICT makes the learning environment vigorous and more captivating by engaging all the senses. The effectiveness of ICT-enhanced instruction can be perceived as a vigorous educational process for encouraging learners to think critically and creatively, analyze the acquired knowledge or skill, have insight into it, associate it with gained experience and apply it first-hand. After the initial reforms of ICT got well underway in other domains of education, it became quite evident for the researcher to see the impact of ICT on her subject and in her area. This research investigates the impact of ICT-enabled programmes created on Geometry content and comes out with a significant sprucing up of student’s achievement.