Perisian geometers sketchpad sebagai bahan interaktif dalam pengajaran dan pembelajaran Matematik - kes tangen kepada bulatan

The aim of this research is to determined whether there is a difference on the students achievement through test score in Bulatan III: Tangen kepada Bulatan topics by using Geometer’s Sketchpad software compared to the conventional method of teaching and learning mathematics. Research also investigated the perception of the students and teachers towards the usage of GSP software. The experimental research was done during school hours. Samples of 70 respondents who were in Form 4 were divided into two groups where 35 students were in experiment group and 35 students in controlled group. This research uses a pre test and post test which consists of 20 objectives questions on Bulatan III: Tangen kepada Bulatan topics which can be answered within 40 minutes. Questionnaires on perception consists of 30 items while the teacher’s perception were collected from an oral interview. Research data on test score was analysed by using suitable statistical package. Findings showed that there was a significant mean difference between pre test and post test score for experiment group (p = 0.000, p0.05). The perception of the students and teachers towards using computer and GSP software in teaching and learning mathematics was highly positive.