Developing Perfect Square Root Board Games for Teaching Square Root in Secondary Schools and Colleges

Abstract

Mathematics has continued to play a significant role in the national development of any country. To achieve the modern technology in teaching.  Mathematics by the year 2025, emphasis should be laid on the use of teaching aids. Teaching aids help to make teaching effective and learning permanent to learners. The purpose of this paper is to develop perfect square root board games for teaching square root in secondary schools. This serves as teaching aids and square root is an aspect of mathematics in junior secondary schools. The paper introduced square root of numbers as an aspect of mathematics and its importance to other aspect of mathematics was discussed.

The statement of problem has reported poor achievement of students in mathematics. the game is being introduced to help in the improvement of the standard of mathematics understanding. The method of playing the game was also introduced. The game is made up of wooden board glass and chart including roots of numbers. The game can also be presented in electronic form. The use of square root board game will enhance the teaching and learning of mathematics, which will go a long way in encouraging students that are not interested in learning mathematics to develop an interest. In conclusion it was recommended that government should encourage the use of game in the teaching and learning of mathematics in all secondary schools. Also mathematics teachers should be trained and retrained on the use of games to teach different concepts in mathematics. This should be done through seminal, workshops and conferences.