Factors that influence the use of educational software III mathematics teaching

Abstract

This paper aims to explore and describe fundamental factors that influence the knowledge and use of Inforrnation and Cornmunication Technologies (ICT), in particular of Educational Software (ES) as a tool, by teachers who teach rnathernatics in any portuguese teaching cycle. The adopted rnethod has a descriptive and exploratory nature, focusing on a quantitative paradigrn. The study participants were 96 teachers who teach rnathernatics, frorn various elementary and secondary schools, frorn different regions of Portugal, as well as from other countries where the portuguese curriculurn is inserted. The questionnaire. The chi square independence test and Cramer s V test were used as instruments. Data analysis was perforrned using SPSS (version 26) and Excel (Office 2016). The results suggest that the age. gender and length of senice of mathematics teachers rnay be factors that influence the knowledge and use of Ilahoot ES and that having training may be an essential condition for the use of Modellus and Scratch ESs. We did not find any relationship of dependence between having training and the use of the rule and cornpass ES by the respondents.