Abstract

The purpose of this study was to use Tablet Teaching Strategy (TTS) to ascertain students’ geometry interest at senior secondary school one. The research was carried out in Osun west education district of Osun State with a population of 12,431 senior secondary one students. 168 students were sampled from four schools out of 68 government owned senior secondary schools. Quasi-experimental design of non-randomized pre-test post-test control group design was utilized. The research instrument was Geometry Interest Inventory (GII). The reliability of the instrument was 0.72. Three research questions were asked and answered with means and standard deviations while the three hypotheses formulated were tested using Analysis of Covariance at 0.05 level of significance. The study found among others that students taught via the utilization of tablet teaching strategy improved in their interest in geometry more than those taught without tablet teaching strategy. Recommendation such as incorporating tablet teaching strategy into mathematics curriculum was made among others.

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