The Perceptions of Senior High School Students on the Use of Photomath

Abstract

Education shapes the world’s future leaders. Being mentally strong will indirectly improve one's skills in dealing with real-world professional and personal challenges (Gou, 2010). In this modern period, technology is a huge help in education. It solves almost everything including problems in academics. With the help of technology, studying is now more enjoyable and fun. Students tend to be afraid of facing subjects about Mathematics where they develop an emotional problem called Math anxiety where it is characterized by intense nervousness in the subject. This interferes with a person's ability to optimally do and solve mathematical problems, thus morphing into an intellectual problem. This mixed-method research aims to establish the significant perspectives of senior high school students on the use of Photomath in today's generation. The student-participants are randomly chosen and were interviewed based on how they perceive the aforesaid application and its effectiveness. The result fosters the idea that modern-day technological apps are considered as an integral part of today's educational system. 10 of the participants even highlighted that they learn better through it since the application can show a number of ways on how to solve a specific problem. Through thematic analysis, it can be seen that there is a positive impact on their grades ever since they used the application for answering and learning more about the complex questions at hand. With the help of Photomath, students will be able to boost their self-confidence and overcome their Math anxiety. However, relying on technology too much may cause laziness that may lead to being dependent on technology. This paper will explain the perspective of Senior High School Students in the use of Photomath in their study and help to overcome the anxiety in solving a mathematical equation.