MATHEMATICS TUTORING APPLICATION FOR SECONDARY SCHOOL STUDENT
Chapter one
INTRODUCTION
1.1 Background of the Study
Tutoring applications have just recently become available, and few people working in mathematics education today are oblivious of the rapid advancement of computer technologies for teaching, learning, and research in mathematics.
Calculating technology in mathematics has progressed from four-function calculators to scientific calculators, graphing calculators, and now computers with computer algebra software.
The use of mathematical libraries or mathematical software in schools remains uncommon, and because teachers find it difficult to go beyond the prescribed textbook, school public library teachings may create gaps and questions.
As school activities develop, the teacher of a class is faced with numerous tasks. These tasks (Bertemes, 2016) include taking students’ attendance and teaching them their classwork, among other things, hence the requirement for a tutoring application.
A tutoring application that serves as a teaching assistant for the teacher is one that stores books electronically in the form of PDFs, Texts, Docs, or any other readable format, videos, sources of reference for related courses
and a mini-dictionary with technical words for easy access and assessment. It is a knowledge repository that houses collections of books, films, educational games (such as quizzes), and the like.
As a result, truth and knowledge can be discovered and obtained from the application via the aforementioned sources. The information contents (Jo, 2016) of any collection can be recorded on microfilms, audiotapes, microchips, and other materials traditionally kept in a library, which is responsible for acquiring, organising, maintaining, and judicial circulation of books and other academic materials through the various sections of the application for efficient use by users.
1.2 Statement of Problems
God Saves Schools requires a mathematical tutoring programme because the school only has one non-computerized library system. Based on this, a number of issues arise about the availability and operation of computerised mathematical library systems, as well as students’ reliance on school textbooks as their sole source of information.
As a result, there is a need for a separate mathematics library that is computerised and can be easily connected with teaching applications.
1.3 Aim and Objectives of the Study
The system’s goal is to create a tutoring application for secondary schools, utilising God Saves Schools as a case study.
In this study, the researchers intend to achieve the following objectives:
To address the issue of pupils being limited to the teachings of their teachers in class.
To construct an easily accessible mathematical dictionary where students may get the meaning of mathematical terminology.
Create a conveniently available module containing a list of mathematical formulas.
Provision of easily accessible tutorials in the form of reading materials.
Design a system that includes a question and answer session at the end of each topic to assess the student’s understanding.