The Use of Math Apps as Perceived by Senior High School Students and their Academic Achievement of Spring integrated School

Abstract

INTRODUCTION

This study aimed to find out the relationship between the use of Math Apps and the academic achievement of Senior High School students at Spring Integrated School (SIS). The researchers used a self-made questionnaire as the primary instrument in gathering the data. It consisted of two parts. Part 1 was the perception of the respondents towards using math apps and part 2 dealt on the questionnaire for the senior high school students towards the extent of usage of math apps.

METHODS

The researchers used descriptive-correlative method and it aimed to described the perceptions of senior high school students using math apps in learning mathematics in terms of routine, independent learning, collaborative learning, and outdoor mathematics, extent of usage of math apps and their academic achievement in math.

RESULTS

There was significant relationship between the use of math apps and the academic achievement as perceived by the senior high school students of Spring Integrated School as evidenced by p-value of 0.0498. The findings coincide with the study ofZhang et.al (2015) that the students made significant improvement from the pre-test to the post-test of assessment 3 (t (16) =2.889, p<.05), after using the long multiplication app for one hour. The mean score went up from 7.7 out of 15 in the pre-test to 9.9 in the post-test, representing 15% of improvement.

DISCUSSIONS

It shows that the perceptions of senior high school students using Math Apps has an overall weighted mean of 3.87 which means students has positive perception towards using math in leaning mathematics. The extent of usage of math apps shows that math calculator has the highest mean of 4.79 and integer free got the lowest mean of 4.10 which reflected as always and often respectively. It has an overall weighted mean of 4.19 which reflected as often. Students have very satisfactory academic performance. There were 34.92% outstanding, 47.62% very satisfactory, 12.70% satisfactory, 4.76% and 0% fair and failed respectively.