The Utilisation of Textbook in Teaching and Learning Mathematics among Primary School Mathematics Teachers

Abstract

Mathematics textbook is commonly used in Malaysia education system as one of the free learning resources provided by the Ministry of Education of Malaysia over decades. However, not many researchers had investigated the utility of textbook among Malaysian primary school teachers in teaching mathematics. Hence, this paper aimed to investigate to what extend do Malaysian primary Mathematics teachers use textbooks in preparing their lesson plans and implement textbooks approach in teaching Mathematics. 50 mathematics teachers from nine states all over Malaysia participated in this survey via web-based questionnaire designed with Google Form. The questionnaire used in this study was adapted from Lepik (2015) and the findings of the study were analysed descriptively. The result shown that mathematics teachers had high reliability on textbook in preparing their lesson plan. Besides that, they also implemented textbook approach actively in the process of teaching Mathematics In general, most of the teachers had fully utilised mathematics textbook throughout teaching and learning of mathematics. Except for one, most teachers were found to skip certain topics in mathematics textbooks. This is an interesting issue that could be investigated by future researchers. This study is hoped to contribute to the development of textbooks utility in mathematics education.