Design and Implementation of a Mathematics Tutoring Application for Secondary School Students
Design and Implementation of a Mathematics Tutoring Application for Secondary School Students.
ABSTRACT
This research work deals with mathematics tutoring application for secondary school students. Chapter one is an introduction to the project to describe what the project entails. It discusses the problems in the existing system. Also described in chapter one are the aim, the objectives, the significance and the limitation of the study.
Chapter two is the literature review of the project which contain diverse research and scholarly articles written of this project while chapter three describes the method of data collection, system analysis and design and improvement on the proposed system.
Chapter four describes the implementation and result of the project and lastly, chapter five gives the summary, conclusion and recommendation.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
TITLE PAGE I
CERTIFICATION Ii
DEDICATION Iii
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Iv
ABSTRACT V
TABLE OF CONTENTS Vi
LIST OF TABLES Vii
LIST OF FIGURES Viii
CHAPTER ONE: INTRODUCTION
1.1 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY 1
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS 2
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY 2
1.4 METHODOLOGY 3
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY 3
1.6 SCOPE OF THE STUDY 3
1.7 LIMITATION OF THE STUDY 4
1.8 DEFINITION OF TERMS 4
CHAPTER TWO: LITERATURE REVIEW
2.0 INTRODUCTION 5
2.1 COMPUTER ALGEBRA SYSTEMS 6
2.2 COMMON MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARES 9
2.2.1 MAPEL 9
2.2.2 MATHEMATICA 9
2.3 MATHEMATICAL APPLICATIONS AND TEACHERS 9
2.4 WHERE MATHEMATICAL SOFTWARE STAND IN EDUCATION 10
2.5 TYPES OF TUTORING 11
2.5.1 PRIVATE TUTORS 11
2.5.2 ACADEMIC COACHING 12
2.5.3 STUDENT-TO-STUDENT TUTORING 13
2.5.4 ONLINE TUTORING 13
2.5.5 HOME TUTORING 14
2.6 HISTORY OF GODSAVES SCHOOLS 14
2.7 ORGANOGRAM OF GODSAVES SCHOOLS 15
CHAPTER THREE RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
3.0 INTRODUCTION 16
3.1 ANALYSIS OF THE EXISTING SYSTEM 16
3.2 OVERVIEW OF THE PROPOSED SYSTEM 16
3.3 METHOD OF DATA COLLECTION 17
3.4 SYSTEM DESIGN 17
3.4.1 HIPO DIAGRAM (HIERARCHICAL INPUT OUTPUT PROCESSING) 17
3.4.2: FLOWCHART 17
3.4.2 USED CASE DIAGRAM 21
3.5 DATABASE STRUCTURE 21
3.5.1 INPUT STRUCTURE 21
3.5.2 OUTPUT STRUCTURE 22
CHAPTER FOUR: SYSTEM TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION
4.0 INTRODUCTION 23
4.1 CHOICE OF PROGRAMMING LANGUAGE AND DATABASE 23
4.2 SYSTEM REQUIREMENT 23
4.2.1 SOFTWARE REQUIREMENT AND SPECIFICATION 23
4.2.2 HARDWARE REQUIREMENT AND SPECIFICATION 24
4.3 RESULT INTERFACE 24
4.4 SYSTEM TESTING AND IMPLEMENTATION 26
4.5 DESCRIPTION OF FINDINGS 27
4.6 SYSTEM DOCUMENTATION AND MAINTENANCE 28
4.6.1 HOW TO LOAD THE SOFTWARE 28
4.6.2 THE PLATFORM 28
4.6.3 HOW TO RUN THE SOFTWARE 28
CHAPTER FIVE: SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
5.1 SUMMARY 29
5.2 CONCLUSION 29
5.3 REC0MMENDATION 29
REFERENCES 30
APPENDICES
INTRODUCTION
Tutoring application has only been available in recent times and few working in mathematics education today would be unaware of the growth in recent years of computer technologies for teaching, learning and research in mathematics.
Calculating technology in mathematics has evolved from four function calculators to scientific calculators to graphing calculators and now to computers with computer algebra software.
The use of mathematical library or mathematical software in schools is still rare and since it is difficult for teachers to go beyond the prescribed textbook, the school public library teachings may leave gaps and doubts.
As school activities expands, there have been a lot of task facing the teacher of a class. These tasks (Bertemes, 2016) include taking attendance of the students, teaching the students their class works, among others, hence the need for a tutoring application.
A tutoring application that serves as a teaching assistant for the teacher is an application where books are kept, electronically in form of PDFs, Texts or Docs or any readable formats, where videos are stored, source of reference for related courses and mini-dictionary where technical words are stored for easy access and assess.
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