TEACHERS’ OPINION ON MATHEMATICS SCHOOL BOOKS
Keywords:
School textbook, teaching tools, quality textbookAbstract
The subject of mathematics is a specific one, for which there is a belief that not everyone can master it. Therefore, the attributes of the mathematics school books are very important in the success of the learning and teaching process. This research aims to research primary school teachers’ opinion about the attributes of the mathematics school books. Teachers' opinion was collected with the help of a questionnaire conducted in 2021/22. The questionnaire contains questions from some categories, where the first category is about teachers’ general information, the second category is related to the school books in terms of visual impact on students e.g. the cover of the book, the colors used in the book, the paper used in publishing the book, the quality of maneuvering with it (book binding). The third category of questions relate to the scientific aspect of the teaching content, its representation and elaboration and the last category is about the presence of pedagogical elements in the school books. The questionnaire was completed by 52 primary school teachers working in different schools. The collected questionnaires were statistically processed using SPSS. The established hypothesis states that the significance of the textbook is correlated with the teaching objectives, and with how much the textbook fits different student types., ( = 0.744, p = 0.000, = 0.766, p = 0.000).
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