Globalisation and Its Influence on Mathematics Education in Secondary Schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria

Abstract

The study investigated globalization and its influence on mathematics education in secondary schools in Akwa Ibom State, Nigeria. The study determined how globalization influences mathematics contents, teaching methods and instructional resources. The research questions were to what extent does globalization influences mathematics contents, teaching methods and instructional resources. Descriptive survey design was employed in which five (5) secondary schools were choosen and ten SSII students were randomly selected from each of the schools making a total of fifty (50) students. A 22-item studied questionnaire comprising of the following sub-sections: mathematics contents, mathematics teaching methods and mathematics instructional resources were used to collect the needed data for the study. The collected data were analysed using chi-square analysis, and the hypotheses that there is no significance influence of globalization on mathematics contents, teaching methods and instructional resource were tested at 0.05 level of significance. The result shows that globalisation has not significantly influenced the three variables- mathematics contents, teaching methods and instructional resources. It was recommended among others, that technology based instruction should be adopted by mathematics teachers and government should build well-equipped e-library in all the States to improve online learning. DOI: 10.5901/jesr.2013.v3n6p33