The Availability and Use of Teaching Aids for Mathematics Teachers in the Primary Stage _Primary Classes as a Model_

Abstract

Teaching aids (TA) are those tools that a math teacher uses to help students understand the concepts of a lesson. The current study aims to find out the availability and use of mathematics teachers for primary (first, second, third) grades of teaching aids in a series of updated mathematics curricula for the primary stage. The researcher followed the descriptive approach, and the study population consisted of all mathematics teachers in the Babel Education Directorate, and in a random manner, (115) male and female teachers were chosen. The researcher built a questionnaire to collect data and its validity and reliability were verified before distributing it to the research sample. The data was processed using the SPSS statistical package to extract arithmetic averages and standard deviations. The results of the study showed the lack of educational aids in primary schools and their lack of the simplest, the lack of use of educational aids by mathematics teachers and their dependence on the traditional method of teaching updated mathematics, and the presence of problems faced by mathematics teachers impede the use of educational aids. The researcher recommended the necessity of providing educational aids for mathematics by the Iraqi Ministry of Education and its Directorates, especially for the primary stage, preparing special training courses for teachers on how to produce and use educational aids and employing them in teaching mathematics, creating a suitable place for displaying and using educational aids in the classroom, providing a guide for the mathematics teacher specific on how to prepare and use educational aids. Keywords: teaching aids, mathematics teacher, updated mathematics curriculum, elementary school