What did the students learn?

109 The responses from all teachers in three school which participated in the study shows that they were satisfied to a great extent by the preparation of teachers on how to prepare lessons and teach by using new technological approach of instruction delivery as well as teaching in the classroom by using this new techniques. Through the short and brief training for these teachers on how understand the subject content deeply, prepare the computer-based lessons and teach by using the active-based learning approach conducted before their teaching, the teachers acquired new knowledge and skills which will help them to master the ICT – tools in their classroom activities such as teaching and evaluation of the teaching and learning process. The teachers who participated in this study has now new knowledge and skills that shall help them to prepare and teach mathematics and science subjects by using the spreadsheet and other educationalgeneric software as instructional tools. Also teacher were equipped with new knowledge and skills that will help them to make mathematical calculations use formula by using the spreadsheet, make presentations by using the presentation software i.e. Microsoft PowerPoint as well as establishing their own formulas in spreadsheet i.e. they know the syntax of writing formulas in spreadsheets . The observations made to all teachers from the beginning to the end of this study show that, teachers were improving gradually in lesson preparation, classroom management during the teaching process, as well as how to assess the achievement of the lesson or curriculum objectives as the study continues. In general the results suggest that the lesson had a positive impact to both teachers and students. Teachers realized that computers ICT are very important tools that can improve the methods, approaches and techniques of teaching, if properly used. 7.2 What did the students learn? This section describes the new knowledge, skills, attitudes and beliefs that was learned andor acquired by the students who participated in this study. The overall objective of the education system is to qualify the individual human being for working life and for life in general, and main aim of education in any society is to prepare the learners or young generation to become good and productive members of that society. On the other hand, the main aim of education system in the information society is to enable young people and adults to acquire new methods of learning process in order to 110 enable them to sort, select, process and use the information, which ICT gives access to and continues with the process of updating their qualifications. The main focus of this study is how to use computer as a tool in teaching and learning mathematics so as to simplify the process of teaching and learning the abstract mathematical concepts, which is believed to be a very difficult task for both teachers and students. Teachers often struggle to help students construct internal representations of the abstract concepts embodied in the external representation. Internal representations are cognitive abstractions of mathematical concepts that are developed through experience. External representation such as tables, diagram, and charts servers as images of these mathematical concept and may be regarded as embodiments of ideas or concepts to be learned Janvier, Girardon, and Morand 19993 and p. 81 In this study we have seen how representations such as enactive iconic and symbolic can easily help learners to internalize the abstract mathematical concepts through use if ICT - tools computer. By using spreadsheet work book which was formatted with formula in some fields columns students are to make many attempts which help them to make decision generalization of the mathematical relations such as b 2 = 4 ac in perfect squares quadratic equation of the form ax 2 + bx + c = 0 and many other relations associated with perfect square. Also this study help the students to learn independently with minimum guide from the teacher, think critically and to make decisions based on the results obtained from their own observations. Again this study helped the students to improve their communication skills, problem solving skills, computational skills and decision-making or generalization skills. Further more students learned how to used computer especially entering data and find solutions in spreadsheets. In general student acquired enough knowledge and skills that will help them in learning other topic as well as other subjects using the ICT tools. 111 7.3 What are the effects on class management?