A STUDY ON EFFECTIVENESS AND COGNITIVE LOAD OF SECONDARY MATH TEACHING USING DYNAMIC GEOMETRY SOFTWARE PG_LAB

Shuanyue OuYang, Liming Zhang and Ngaihong Chan
Faculty of Education
University of Macau
China

The experiment-based dynamic math teaching method is an instruction model which enables students to acquire knowledge through personal operation and reflection with the aid of information technology. This study aims at investigating the effectiveness of secondary math teaching using the experiment-based dynamic teaching method. A quasi-experiment was conducted to compare the students’ achievements and cognitive load (CL) between traditional teaching and experiment-based dynamic teaching groups. Results indicated that though there was no significant difference in either the test scores or the CL between the experimental group and the control group, the experiment group reported lower CL than the control group did. Combining the CL with the students’ math achievements, it could be concluded that the traditional teaching was more suitable for the high performance students, while the experiment-based dynamic math teaching method was more suitable for the medium performance students.

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