Teachers’ integration of ICT in the teaching of mathematics at the senior high school level in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality and Upper Denkyira West District

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to investigate mathematics teachers‘ integration of ICT in the teaching of mathematics in Senior High School level in Ghana. A sample of 27 mathematics teachers was selected out of a total of 44 teachers in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality and Upper Denkyira West District. A questionnaire and an interview guide were administered to gather data from the participants who were a sample of mathematics teachers from both private and public Senior High Schools in the Upper Denkyira East Municipality and the Upper Denkyira West District. The participants were made to answer questions on their competency, their use as well as factors which hindered their use of ICT in the teaching of mathematics. The results of the study revealed that the teachers‘ methods were frequently teacher centered and that employment of ICT tools were primarily for organizational and informative purposes. The lack of use of ICT tools in the teaching of mathematics was credited primarily to the lack of technological resources (i.e. hardware, software and the internet) and insufficiency on the job training of teachers to boost their motivation as well as knowledge for the use of ICT tools since new technological tools keeps on emerging. For mathematics teachers to be able to integrate ICT in their lessons, it is recommended that ICT tools are made available to the teachers, most importantly, the teachers are motivated and also time allocation for mathematics lessons should factor the integration of ICT tools.