Exploring the application and effects of TI 84 Plus on students skills in mathematical computation

Abstract

This study sought to find out the students’ skills in mathematical computation using TI – 84 Plus in teaching Mathematics among freshmen Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry students of the College of Education of Jose Rizal Memorial State University, Main Campus, Dapitan City. The skills that the students possessed in both the control and the experimental groups on the topics included in this experiment are equivalent or comparable before the intervention. The study also concludes that the experimental group performs significantly skillful than the control group after the intervention. It can be deduced further that there is a significant variation in the students’ skills in mathematical computation between the control group with the traditional method of teaching and the experimental group with the used of TI – 84 Plus in teaching and learning Mathematics. In addition, the study concludes that both the interventions, traditional method of teaching and using TI – 84 Plus in teaching and learning Mathematics, make improvement in the students’ skills in mathematical computation. This means that students perform skillfully better during the posttest than during the pretest. However, students’ skills in mathematical computation in the experimental group are greatly influenced by the TI – 84 Plus used by teachers and students in Advanced Algebra and Trigonometry class. This concludes that students in the experimental group perform skillfully better than their counterpart.