Planning and Production of Mathematic Teaching Courseware for School Elementary Second Grade and Evaluation of its Effect on Academic Achievement (Summation Topic) and Learner's Creativity

摘要

The present survey has been done aiming to plan and produce mathematic courseware and evaluation of its effect on (summation topic) and the creativity of learners in elementary second grade. The mentioned courseware is based on researcher's idea and is according to the rules of learning information processing that its validity has been approved by the professionals of software teaching and its average is 83. The methodology is semi experimental and the population involves the students of the elementary second grade in city of Kamyaran in 1389-90 academic year that 36 subjects were chosen through available group's sampling. After cloning according to intelligence, gender and learning grade and by choosing the pretest – posttest plan through control group, researcher has set 19 chosen students by chance and accidently in test group and 17 students in control group, then test group was set in a process that the independent variable, that is teaching according to the courseware that saw there and in control group, the way of presenting lecture and questioning and answering, that is the usual way of teaching according to courseware was used for teaching the subjects. The achieved data through pretest and posttest was analyzed by using covariance analysis and the spss software. According to the results, the mentioned courseware has effect on curriculum development (summation topic) and the most important properties of creativity such as originality, fluency, flexibility and elaboration. It was also shown by calculating the amount of effect that 12% of variance that was the factor of summation, 22% the factor of originality, 19% the factor of fluency, 18% the factor of flexibility and 16% was the factor of elaboration, were shown by this teaching method.