- Author(s): Adetunmbi, L. Akinyemi and Muibi, T. G
- Volume 11, No 2, 2023
This paper investigated the teachers’ attitude and competence in utilisation of information and communication technologies (ICTs) for teaching mathematics at secondary school level in Ibadan Metropolis, Oyo State, Nigeria. The descriptive survey research design was adopted for the study. The population comprised of all mathematics teachers in selected junior and senior secondary schools in Ibadan Metropolis while the sample size comprised 250 randomly selected teachers. Attitudes and Competence of mathematics teachers to information and communication technology (ICT) questionnaire ® =0.78) was used to obtain data. Data obtained were analysed using simple percentage, frequency count and t-test for the null hypotheses raised at (0.05) level of significance. The findings revealed that 242 (96.8%) had positive attitude to the utilisation of ICTs for teaching mathematics while 198 (79.2%) didn’t have the required competence in using ICT for teaching of mathematics. The study also found that there was no significant difference in the attitude of male and female teachers in using ICT for teaching mathematics (p-value of 0.831). Similarly, there was also no significance difference in the competence of male and female
teachers in using ICT for teaching mathematics (p-value of 0.646). The study recommended that government both at federal and state level should put in place training and re-training programmes for all mathematics teachers to create the awareness and adoption of ICTs for effective teaching of mathematics in all secondary schools in Nigeria.