![]() ![]() Overall, the use technology in mathematics classrooms such as the Geometers’ Sketchpad has been tested to significantly enhanced students’ motivation, provide maximum learning opportunities and improve students’ achievement in mathematics. Further, the sketchpad allows the students to investigate mathematical connections and supplied chances for students to reflect on their activities, which is central to a constructivist theory of knowing. Geometer’s Sketchpad (GSP) is a dynamic software program which offers students a tool to construct drawings, measure between points and show relationship of lengths and angles that exists in figure based on the initial construction in the environment. Furthermore, studies have shown that the use of the Geometer’s Sketchpad helped improved students’ mathematics achievement, better retention of mathematical concepts and allows students’ deeper critical thinking skills across all levels. In fact, the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics (NCTM) based in the United States of America mentioned that these educational technologies can contribute and helped students in their mathematical investigations and modelling. Electronic technologies such as computers and educational software are regards as very important innovative tools for the teaching and learning of mathematics concepts. Technological tools being utilized in the classroom had long been endorsed and capitalized by mathematics educators around the globe to meet the need of today’s global learners. Technology is an effective tool in mathematics classroom to enhance interaction between students and teachers by allowing them to investigate their conjectures. Bringing technology in the classroom ignites our students’ interest and believed to perform well during evaluation. Recent studies in various fields have shown that students’ who are exposed to technology are performing better in the classroom compared to their counterparts. In the age of globalization students’ nowadays are more inclined to the use of technology. ![]() "The Geometer’s Sketchpad: A Technological Tool Enhancing Junior High School Students’ Mathematics Achievement, Attitude towards Mathematics and Technology." American Journal of Educational Research 4, no. ![]() American Journal of Educational Research, 4(15), 1116-1119. The Geometer’s Sketchpad: A Technological Tool Enhancing Junior High School Students’ Mathematics Achievement, Attitude towards Mathematics and Technology. "The Geometer’s Sketchpad: A Technological Tool Enhancing Junior High School Students’ Mathematics Achievement, Attitude towards Mathematics and Technology." American Journal of Educational Research 4.15 (2016): 1116-1119. American Journal of Educational Research. The researcher then recommends that mathematics teachers may consider utilizing technological tools like the Geometer’s Sketchpad in discussing lessons in Geometry and other mathematics subjects to improve not only their students’ mathematics achievement but also for students’ attitude towards mathematics and technology. ![]() Furthermore, the Geometer’s Sketchpad showed a positive impact on students’ achievement in Geometry as indicated in the increase of their posttest scores. Results revealed that junior high school students’ attitude towards mathematics and technology gained a relative increase as influenced by the usage of the Geometer’s Sketchpad. Data collected were analyzed using mean, percentage, standard deviation and t-test for paired observations. The objective of this study was to determine the effect on the levels of junior high school students’ attitude towards mathematics and technology as well as their mathematics achievement after being exposed to geometry activities using the dynamic software, the Geometer’s Sketchpad. ![]()
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