Students' Interaction in Mathema Tics Classroom: The Case of Secondary Schools of Borena Zone, Oromia Region
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2010-06
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Addis Ababa University
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The purpose of this study was to investigate students' interaction in
mathematics classroom, the factors which influence students' classroom
interaction. Furthermore, it is intended to look for possible means of solving
students' classroom interaction problems. Qualitative case study was employed
to carryout this study. For this study three secondary schools were selected
purposely. Then, four mathematics teachers and eight grade ten students
participated in the interview. Four purposely selected classrooms were observed
five times and fourteen students were involved in focused group discussion in
three sections. Expecting them to give rich information to the researcher,
teachers and students were selected purposively. Three instruments namely
unstructured classroom observation, unstructured interview and focused group
discussion have been employed to collect the necessarily data from the three
purposely selected government schools of Borena zone- namely Abaya, Tore and
Gerba secondary schools. Qualitative technique was used to analyze the data.
The result of the study revealed that, classroom interactive activities were not
implemented properly due to teachers' domination, teachers' lack of awareness
to interactive activities, teachers' unfair treatment, lack of confidence of students
and speaking experience in front of people, students' earlier experience and
improper seating arrangement. Based on these findings and conclusion certain
recommendations have been made to minimize the problem and to increase the
interactive ability of students in order to develop learners' participation in
mathematics classroom.
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students' classroom interaction. Furthermore,