The Perception of Teachers on Integration of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Into Mathematics Teaching and Learning

Abstract

Integration of Technology in the teaching and learning process has gained recent attention, most especially whether it favors less endowed countries like Ghana. The purpose of the study was to find teachers' perceptions of the integration of ICT into Mathematics teaching and learning in Ghanaian Senior High Schools and discover the potential barriers hindering effective ICT integration. The population comprised all teachers in the Greater Accra Region. A simple random sampling was used to select the teachers. Two public mixed and one private mixed school from the Ga South Municipality were purposefully selected. A total of twenty-five (25) teachers and sixty (60) students were selected from the three schools. The research design for the study was a mixed method research design. Questionnaires were administered personally to the teacher. The findings revealed that 95.8% of the teachers have not been using computers in their classroom instruction even though they have access to computers in their schools. It was also discovered that 83.3% of the schools do not have specialized software for teaching Mathematics installed on the computers in their laboratories. It is therefore recommended that specialized software for teaching and learning Mathematics be installed on the computers in the various Senior High Schools laboratories to enable the mathematics teachers in the SHS to have access to them and use them in their teaching.