GEN TEFL Journal Volume 6 (2021)
E-ISSN 2520 209X
The Effectiveness of Mobile Aided Instruction Application (MAIA) in Teaching Mathematics
Ricson M. Ricardo, STI College Alabang
Mathematics is one of the considered boring subjects because of its nature as abstract, difficult, and complex. Hence students tend to dislike any topic related to it. In the traditional board and chalk, the bare presentation of the instruction adds up to the unappealing image of mathematics which hampered the learning process hence instructional factor has greatly affected achievements in fundamental mathematics. The purpose of this study was to develop a Mobile Aided Instruction Application (MAIA) in teaching mathematics and intended to answer the following questions: What stages were undertaken in the development of MAIA? What is the evaluation of the math teachers and IT practitioners in terms of functional suitability, performance efficiency, usability, reliability, and security? What is the difference between the evaluation of the teachers and IT practitioners on MAIA? In this study, the researcher utilized the developmental and descriptive designs. Under descriptive design, survey method was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of MAIA by seven (7) math teachers and ten (10) Information Technology practitioners via a questionnaire. For the developmental design, the researcher employed Rapid Application Development (RAD) software model. Finally, upon careful analysis of the data gathered, the following findings and conclusions were drawn to address the issues raised in this study: the RAD Model was effective in the development of MAIA; Math teachers and IT practitioners deemed MAIA as very effective and effective respectively in the instruction of Mathematics and there was no significant difference between the evaluations of math Teachers and IT practitioners in the effectiveness of MAIA.
Keywords: mathematics; mobile application; RAD; software development; explicit teaching
E-ISSN 2520 209X
The Effectiveness of Mobile Aided Instruction Application (MAIA) in Teaching Mathematics
Ricson M. Ricardo, STI College Alabang
Mathematics is one of the considered boring subjects because of its nature as abstract, difficult, and complex. Hence students tend to dislike any topic related to it. In the traditional board and chalk, the bare presentation of the instruction adds up to the unappealing image of mathematics which hampered the learning process hence instructional factor has greatly affected achievements in fundamental mathematics. The purpose of this study was to develop a Mobile Aided Instruction Application (MAIA) in teaching mathematics and intended to answer the following questions: What stages were undertaken in the development of MAIA? What is the evaluation of the math teachers and IT practitioners in terms of functional suitability, performance efficiency, usability, reliability, and security? What is the difference between the evaluation of the teachers and IT practitioners on MAIA? In this study, the researcher utilized the developmental and descriptive designs. Under descriptive design, survey method was employed to evaluate the effectiveness of MAIA by seven (7) math teachers and ten (10) Information Technology practitioners via a questionnaire. For the developmental design, the researcher employed Rapid Application Development (RAD) software model. Finally, upon careful analysis of the data gathered, the following findings and conclusions were drawn to address the issues raised in this study: the RAD Model was effective in the development of MAIA; Math teachers and IT practitioners deemed MAIA as very effective and effective respectively in the instruction of Mathematics and there was no significant difference between the evaluations of math Teachers and IT practitioners in the effectiveness of MAIA.
Keywords: mathematics; mobile application; RAD; software development; explicit teaching
