Students' opinions on the instructional material developed with regard to integral

Abstract

The purpose of this study is to evaluate students' opinions about the instructional material (FlashRie) developed with Flash programme for "area applications in integral." To this end, the study was conducted with 20 12-grade students selected on a voluntary basis. The study was a special case study which is one of the qualitative study methods and a semi-structured interview form consisting of 5 open-ended questions and prepared by researchers was used as data collection tool. Data obtained from the semi -structured interview form was analyzed through descriptive analysis. As a result of the study, all the participants stated that they actively participated in the lesson with FlashRie and they never lost their attention throughout the lesson. In addition to this, most of the participants emphasized that their learning was more permanent since FlashRie is visual and it does not directly provide the solutions of the questions but directs one to solution with clues. Furthermore, some of the participants expressed that they lost their prejudice against mathematics and that they started liking mathematics after using this material. Participants underlined that they would like to use this material an d other similar ones also in other subjects of mathematics. However, majority of the participants argued that it would be more efficient to use FlashRie in company with a teacher in class environment than using it on their own.