PROPOSAL ON MATHEMATICS TUTORING APPLICATION FOR

SECONDARY SCHOOL (A CASE STUDY OF TASUED)

Tutoring application has only been available in recent times and few working in
mathematics education today would be unaware of the growth in recent years of computer
technologies for teaching, learning and research in mathematics. Calculating technology in
mathematics has evolved from four function calculators to scientific calculators to graphing
calculators and now to computers with computer algebra software. The use of mathematical
library or mathematical software in schools is still rare and since it is difficult for teachers
to go beyond the prescribed textbook, the school public library teachings may leave gaps
and doubts.
As school activities expands, there have been a lot of task facing the teacher of a class.
These tasks (Bertemes, 2016) include taking attendance of the students, teaching the
students their class works, among others, hence the need for a tutoring application. A
tutoring application that serves as a teaching assistant for the teacher is an application
where books are kept, electronically in form of PDFs, Texts or Docs or any readable
formats, where videos are stored, source of reference for related courses and mini-
dictionary where technical words are stored for easy access and assess. It is a repository of
knowledge, houses collections of books, videos and educational games (in form of quiz)
and the likes.
Consequently, truth and knowledge can be found and acquired from the application through
the aforementioned sources. The information contents (Jo, 2016) of any of collections can
be recorded on microfilms, audiotapes, microchips and other materials traditionally kept in
a library, which is charged with the responsibility of acquiring, organizing, maintaining,
and judicial circulation of the books and other academic materials through the various
sections of the application, for efficient use by the users.
STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
The need for a mathematical tutoring application in TASUED is because of the school
operates a single non-computerized library system. Based on this, a number of problems
face the existence and operation of the computerized mathematical library systems and the
students being limited to their school textbooks alone for source of knowledge. Hence, the
need for a separate mathematical library and making it, computerized, where the tutoring
application can be easily integrated.

AIM AND OBJECTIVES OF THE STUDY

The aim of the system is to design a tutoring application for secondary schools using
TASUED as a case study:
In this study therefore, the researchers hope to accomplish the following objectives:
 To solve the problem of limiting students to teachings of their teachers in the
classroom.
 To create a readily available mathematical dictionary where students can get
meaning of mathematical terms
 To create a readily available module that contains a list of some mathematical
formulas.
 Provision of readily available tutorials in form of reading materials.
 To design a system that will have a question and answer session at end of each topic
to test the knowledge of the student.

SIGNIFICANCE OF THE STUDY

This study, tutoring application for secondary school students is designed to bring
efficiency in the mathematical library system operations and to provide access to students
in getting almost all they need for studies. It will eliminate some of the problems of students
being limited to the teachings they get from teachers and textbooks, thereby widening their
source of getting information for reading and tutoring materials.
METHODOLOGY

In this research work, NetBeans 8.0, Xampp , Java programming language, and Javafx are
used as design methodologies. This is because of their basic advantage over other models
or methods; which is their simplicity in nature.

SCOPE OF THE STUDY

This project looks into the processes involved in keeping tracks of the readable materials.
The software will be divided into modules containing selected mathematical topics
(indices, surds, completing the square, factorization and quadratic formula), mathematical
dictionary containing mathematical terms, a list of mathematical formulae, which are
grouped into 3 different sections and an assessment after each lesson.

LIMITATION OF THE STUDY

This study will not look in detail of all topics done in secondary school. It will be limited
to selected mathematics topics, which include Indices, Surds, Factorization, Quadratic
Formulae and Completing the Square, etc.

DEFINITION OF TERMS
Design: It is a detail plan or arrangement to achieve a particular purpose.
System: It is an assemblage of interrelated elements, which we find interesting to study. It
could be a process, a machine or a program.
Program: A set of instructions and procedures tells the computer what to do.
Application: A program designed to perform particular tasks.
Tutoring: Is an act or the process of giving instruction or teaching.
User: The user here refers to the people who make use of the application.
Automation/Computerization: It is a process of making a system to carry out its
processes on its own without much helps from man.
Module: An independent unit that is part of a larger development. It is the same thing as
sub-tasks.