Design and Implementation of a Mathematics Tutoring Application for Secondary School Students

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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.

REFERENCES

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Chiasson, K & Yearwood, J. (2006). Education and Human development. Retrieved from https://education.und.edu/teaching-and-learning/_files/docs/yearwood-vita.pdf on March 27, 2018

Klien, C. (2014). Using Distributed Objects for Mathematical Applications. Retrieved from https://arxiv.org/pdf/1409.7236 on March 23, 2018

Maple Software (n.d). Maplesoft Maple Mathematics Software. Retrieved from https://acms.ucsd.edu/services/software/license-info/maple-math.html on June 3, 2018

Mathematica (n.d). What is Mathematica. Retrieved from https://www.calstatela.edu/its/services/software/mathematica.php on June 3, 2018

Zlatkin, O. (2016); Assessment of Learning Outcomes in Higher Education. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02602938.2016.1169501 on March 24, 2018

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